On 1/24/07, Parker Peters parkerpeters1002@gmail.com wrote:
Here's a stupid suggestion.
Code it so that *NEW* links are nofollow by default (thus stopping linkspammers from being rewarded for linkspamming), but allow a process (request to an admin or something) whereby a link can simply be followed and then the "nofollow" tag removed from it if it's verified to not be a spam link.
Wouldn't that be better than uniformly tagging all links Nofollow?
DMOZ is that way
Unless of course the goal isn't really about stopping spammers, but about trying to game Google's algorithm because someone got jealous that someone else's site came up before en-wikipedia's in a google search somewhere.
Somewhat unlikely. Do you enjoy makeing random acusations like that?
I'll note that Nofollow was uniformly rejected by the community in previous discussions.
not quite true.
In any case I'm trying to keep my notes up to date. Are you still trying to pretend to be an admin or not?