On Jan 18, 2005, at 7:58 PM, shi zhao wrote:
see http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html
Are we can join in the exterior links (rel="nofollow") , preventing wikispam?
I'm inclined to agree. It looks legit from a markup perspective (ie it shouldn't cause HTML validators to bitch at us; rel _is_ a defined attribute for <a>, and the set of values is open-ended.)
Of course it won't prevent wikispam, but with luck it will discourage it by reducing its value.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)