Comment 9 for bug 391780
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| Martin Pool (mbp) wrote Re: [Bug 391780] Re: Support Markdown "stack overflow" style hyperlinks markup | #9 |
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On 21 November 2011 02:21, Gavin Panella <email address hidden> wrote:
>> * insert <a rel=nofollow> - but do we really care? the vast majority
>> of content is trustworthy and has useful links, and we have
>> mechanisms for getting rid of spam
>
> I think this is the reason why most content is okay; Launchpad is not
> an interesting target for link spam. If we stop adding nofollow to
> user-provided links we will become more interesting to spammers.
I had a look at askubuntu, github, some other comparable user content
sites. Most do use nofollow. We don't need any more spam attention.