On 5/1/07, John Lee johnleemk@gmail.com wrote:
Precisely. As I understand it, the reason interwiki links aren't nofollowed is because we can be damn sure that they're not spam, since all these domains have to be preapproved before you can link to them using the interwiki format. If we could have this sort of certainty for normal links, I'm sure we would (or ought to) remove the nofollow attribute.
I still don't understand that line of reasoning. How is it that "we can be damn sure that they're not spam"? Whether or not a link is spam is dependent on where it is linked from and for what reason. You can't point to any domain name and say that a link to it isn't going to be spam, and certainly not when you're pointing to a page with content that can be changed by anyone at any time for any reason.
Anthony