I also agree.
Perhaps more importantly, I don't see any actual argument for *not* using nofollow. We're not here to drive pagerank for other websites, and our doing so can be harmful to those sites, or to the article subject.
Risker
On 18 November 2013 09:44, Arcane 21 arcane@live.com wrote:
I agree. While spammers are so pathetic they will do anything for page views, I have to admire (and detest) their ability to adapt in order to spread their nonsense.
Anything that slows them down, even in the slightest degree, is something I support and recommend.
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 09:24:54 -0500 From: marc@uberbox.org To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Applying nofollow only to external links added
in revisions that are still unpatrolled
On 11/18/2013 04:39 AM, Happy Melon wrote:
I'm sure spam directed at, say, enwiki, would get very subtle very
quickly
if spammers thought there was a real chance of it being able to use enwiki's pagerank weight. Don't underestimate spammers' ability to
learn
and adapt.
Also +1; pagerank is a valuable thing and Wikipedia has lots of it. Spammers would be quick to find ways to cheat, lie and manipulate their way into tapping into it.
Right now, we are plagued with the spammers that are too desperate or stupid to care; if we turned nofollow off, they would all descend upon us like a plague of locusts.
-- Marc
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