Realpolitik wrote: > I am aware that it's perfectly easy for a small blog to moderate > comments before posting, but frequently administrators prefer to allow > users to post at their leisure and just remove spam / offensive > comments when they come across them. Additionally, if a large-scale > popular blog requires moderation before posts are displayed then the > discussion quality will be severely impacted. In both of these > situations and more, it's useful to show user comments immediately > after creation.
Yes, I've been curious about this default behavior for a long time. We should have some basic settings in core that address the default handling of new comments. > This brings me to my main point, it's probably a good idea to force, > or have an option to force, the addition of 'nofollow' to the rel > attribute in comment links, both in the comment content and the user's > website link. This would help dissuade users from spamming with links > to their own websites for the sake of increasing search engine > rankings, and in doing so would prevent loss of the blog's own search > relevance. I would prefer that Habari core stand aside from such contentious topics. Plugins and themes can be written to handle applying extra properties to these links. Here's information on nofollow itself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow Here's the nofollow spec: http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-nofollow Here are some (questionable) reasons against nofollow: http://nonofollow.net/11-reasons-against-nofollow/ http://www.eatdrinksleepmovabletype.com/discussions/nofollow_is_no_good/ I'd really rather not start a thread on whether nofollow is good or not, but rather see if we can agree on whether it's something our core software should address at all. That said, I would certainly rather expend my efforts extending the Comment class to allow for additional kinds of comments (content types for comments) than implementing nofollow, and the plugin I would inevitably need to write to disable it. Owen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
