Yeah, but Typo itself has *always* used nofollow for comments, yet comment spammers have developed tools to spam Typo.
I honestly don't think that the spam-tools people care a bit about nofollow. Scott On 9/29/06, Thomas, Mark - BLS CTR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's true; once the capability to deface Trac is in the toolset, > spammers will continue to use it. However, if a spammer wants to add a > new wiki to his toolset, they'd prefer one that doesn't put nofollow on > the links. Better yet, if the history pages don't have a nofollow > associated with them, then they still get benefits even after the > content is rolled back. Having the nofollow is certainly a disincentive, > I mean, what good is obvious linkspam if it isn't picked up by search > engines? > > But yes, it alone doesn't prevent linkspam. Neither does blacklists. The > only thing that seems to work is CAPTCHA. On a comment form I'm > currently working on, I'm thinking about implementing selective captcha, > where CAPTCHA is required only when some minimum number of links exist > in the post. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Brown > > Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 12:21 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [typo] Lots of spam up on Trac > > > > Bots and spammers aren't very thoughtful; efficient for > > pagerank or not, they'll attack whatever site meets the > > profile they know how to deface. They're not going to come > > back and feel frustrated that the links they posted as > > rel="nofollow"... > > > > -- Paul > > > > On 9/29/06, Thomas, Mark - BLS CTR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hey does anyone police Trac for spam? Can we make it take > > registered > > > > users only or perhaps install some sort of spam filtration plugin? > > > > > > There are spam-prevention plugins > > > http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/SpamFilter > > > > > > Maybe Trac should put rel="nofollow" on its external wiki links, > > > reducing the incentive. > > > > > > Is anyone working on a ruby svn front-end? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Typo-list mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list > > > > > > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mult.ifario.us/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Typo-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Typo-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list > _______________________________________________ Typo-list mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/typo-list
