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(a)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(a)uberbox.org
To: wikitech-l(a)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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