Info Control wrote:
On 4/18/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
However any such code would be de-facto saying that we are a links directory. If we are not there is no reason to have anything other than nofollow on our links.
On the non-extremist flip side, Wikipedia's massive Google Rank was built on the backs of people linking to articles from their own sites. Some allowance of this isn't a bad thing or endorsement of anything, it's basic netiquette.
Massive Google rank is a side-effect of our mission, not a goal and it's not something from which we gain any financial advantage. The whole "netiquette" and "built on the backs of" argument is just a thinly-veiled attempt to justify hijacking WP into yet another way to make a buck, as if the Internet didn't have more than enough of those already. Did you consider that maybe so many people link to WP *because* its mission is to be useful rather than profitable?
Stan