{"id":1265,"date":"2006-05-30T11:46:14","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T15:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/30\/comment-spam-and-nofollow\/"},"modified":"2006-05-30T11:46:31","modified_gmt":"2006-05-30T15:46:31","slug":"comment-spam-and-nofollow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/30\/comment-spam-and-nofollow\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment Spam and nofollow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dylan.tweney.com\/2006\/05\/26\/googles-embarrassing-mistake\/\">Dylan F. Tweney<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/jeremy.zawodny.com\/blog\/archives\/006800.html\">Jeremy Zawodny<\/a>):\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/dylan.tweney.com\/2006\/05\/26\/googles-embarrassing-mistake\/\">\r\n<p>\r\nSince its enthusiastic adoption a year and a half ago, by Google, Six Apart, WordPress, and of course the eminent Dave Winer, I think we can all agree that nofollow has done&hellip;nothing. Comment spam? Thicker than ever. It&rsquo;s had absolutely no effect on the volume of spam. That&rsquo;s probably because comment spammers don&rsquo;t give a crap, because the marginal cost of spamming is so low. Also, nofollow-tagged links are still links, which means that humans can still click on them&ndash;and if humans can click, there&rsquo;s a chance somebody might visit the linked sites after all. Heck, if we really wanted to eliminate comment spam, why don&rsquo;t we just get rid of hyperlinks altogether?\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dylan F. Tweney (via Jeremy Zawodny): Since its enthusiastic adoption a year and a half ago, by Google, Six Apart, WordPress, and of course the eminent Dave Winer, I think we can all agree that nofollow has done&hellip;nothing. Comment spam? Thicker than ever. It&rsquo;s had absolutely no effect on the volume of spam. That&rsquo;s probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}