[WikiEN-l] Just what *is* Jimbo's role anyway? - "nofollow" decision

[Anthony]

On 3/22/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22/03/07, Jeff Raymond <jeff.raymond at internationalhouseofbacon.com> wrote:
>
> > Okay, that makes some sense.
> > Now, why the hell aren't they nofollowed along with everything else?
>
> Presumably because they're very unlikely to be spam links that search
> engine spammers would insert to try to get Google rank.
>
Looking at the list, this doesn't seem to be true.  Even just the wiki
links, I mean anyone can create a wikicity or whatever it's called,
and anyone can edit the ones that are there.

> (And now let's see if search engine spammers start looking for ways to
> abuse that ...)
>
One obvious way is to link to an iw site that doesn't have nofollow
on, and then link from there to the spam site.

Anthony