2 Feb
2005
2 Feb
'05
12:01 a.m.
mental@...3... wrote:
Quoting John Pybus <john@...368...>:
Changing the code to add rel="nofollow" to links, should also help discourage spammers by making their links worth less. See:
http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html
Of course this also means links people post to the wiki stop counting towards search rankings, but it may be a price worth paying.
It might be appropriate, but are spammers likely to notice?
Sadly, not in the short term - I don't expect they pay enough attention to individual wikis :-( In the longer term, if widely taken up, it'll make a difference to the attractiveness of wiki spam in general.
John