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  all nofollow did was allow pollution of content to humans while providing hints at the pollution to search engines
 
 
 tantek
     
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      2015-05-12 18:28
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  edited /Vouch (-33) "rm 2 instances of nofollow usage, make the 3rd (in old notes) optional since it's purpose is not clear"
 
 
 Loqi
     
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      2015-05-12 18:26
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  right, nofollow has become quite pointless
 
 
 tantek
     
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      2015-05-12 18:26
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  main reason I've seen for nofollow has been for stuff like wikis, where anyone could make lists pointing at sites to bump up their link rating
 
 
 Vendan
     
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      2015-05-12 18:25
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  so there's tons of nofollow links that are perfectly fine, as compared to comment spam (original motivation for nofollow)
 
 
 tantek
     
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      2015-05-12 18:24
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  every link on every post on every silo you post has nofollow on it, even though its on an account that you authenticated etc.
 
 
 tantek
     
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      2015-05-12 18:23
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  nofollow is basically noise at this point
 
 
 tantek
     
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      2015-05-12 18:23
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  if an actual problem comes up with nofollow links, let's find another way to solve it
 
 
 tantek
     
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      2015-05-12 18:23
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  yes let's drop all mention of nofollow from webmention
 
 
 tantek
     
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      2015-05-12 18:21
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  primary abuse of nofollow has been social silos using it on *2nd party* content (posts), not just 3rd party content (comments). And nevermind the wikipedia abuse.
 
 
 tantek
     
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      2015-05-12 18:19