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Preventing Comment Spam
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:16 pm
by robw
I added a tracker feature request (
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.ph ... tid=542825 ) which could help make comment spam worthless. The innovation comes from Google, but MSN and Yahoo have taken up the idea.
Basically, adding the tag
rel="nofollow" to comment links prevents the search engines considering them for pagerank etc.
Full details here:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/ ... -spam.html
Cheers
Rob
Re: Preventing Comment Spam
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:27 pm
by garvinhicking
Hi!
Actually this rel=nofollow was added nearly a year ago. It did not improve the spam situation. It does make it worthless, but spammers still spam the site regardless.
I've responded on the tracker that you can already achieve it very easy by editing your comments.tpl file.
Best regards,
Garvin
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:11 pm
by robw
Hi Garvin,
Appreciate the fast response, and understand s9y's position on this. Did not see S9Y on the list of supporting blogs in the google article, so when I also didn't find any forum entries on this, I decided to post it FYI. Should have known that you guys would be one step ahead already!
If anyone
does want to enable this on their blog, the code to edit is here:
in
comments.tpl
Find this code:
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{if $comment.url}
(<a href="{$comment.url}" title="{$comment.url|@escape}" >Link</a>)
{/if}
and add
rel="nofollow" before the
>Link so the code looks like this:
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{if $comment.url}
(<a href="{$comment.url}" title="{$comment.url|@escape}" rel="nofollow">Link</a>)
{/if}