Topic: Comments plugin
Line 149 or so of the comments.php page should probably have rel="nofollow" when the link is printed.
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Comments plugin
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- Diti
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Re: Comments plugin
No it shouldn’t. The nofollow argument is useful in case of spam. But since the comments plugin offers a captcha, I see no point in adding this.
- dover
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Re: Comments plugin
I do, you know how many people go and copy and paste their spam comment and go through the anti-spam process? Too many.
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- mvdkleijn
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Re: Comments plugin
It doesn't really matter either way. I'll add the rel=nofollow since it won't harm anything but its already been proven not to work against the flood of spam.
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- dover
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Re: Comments plugin
I thought rel=nofollow was to stop any spam affect your google ranking rather than stop spam period? Can we make it optional?
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- mvdkleijn
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Re: Comments plugin
Yes and no. (see below) I'll see about making it optional.. 
For those of you that are interested... here's the section on rel (past and present) on a very(!) nice site about HTML 5: diveintohtml5.org. It includes the following paragraph:
diveintohtml5.org wrote:
rel="nofollow" “indicates that the link is not endorsed by the original author or publisher of the page, or that the link to the referenced document was included primarily because of a commercial relationship between people affiliated with the two pages.” It was invented by Google and standardized within the microformats community. WordPress adds rel="nofollow" to links added by commenters. The thinking was that if “nofollow” links did not pass on PageRank, spammers would give up trying to post spam comments on weblogs. That didn’t happen, but rel="nofollow" persists.
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- dover
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Re: Comments plugin
spammers would give up trying to post spam comments on weblogs
Yeh, people are idiots. You'd think they'd learn that spamming is almost 100% pointless, but no. Thanks for the related info though!
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