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Article pages are not using nofollow. I am wondering the affects of giving the control to the community such as this.

2 reasons really:

People spamming - Basically people making garbage posts, but just good enough to slip by. For the sole purpose of backlinks. Thus lowering the value of the community b/c we have to wade through junk.

Devalued domain - Simply put b/c who you link out to plays a LARGE role in your sites authoritativeness. Do you guys really trust the community to NOT link to bad neighborhood’s?

Curious your guys train of thought?

Potential solution:

Once you reach a certain level of "trust" within the site you are allowed to link out w/o nofollow.

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Re: Article pages not using nofollow

andybeal
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October 2007

It's always going to be a dilemma. On the one hand you want to protect from spam, but on the other hand, nofollow is very much anti-community.
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Re: Article pages not using nofollow

House-Blog
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October 2007

Hi Brian, Thanks a good question and yes always going to be a challenge to find the balance between creating an open and trusting community versus a more "managed web 1.0 syle" approach.

Our house rules are pretty explicit that no spamming tactics will be tolerated and everyone in the community has the power to stop this by voting down or reporting the members. I guess all we can do is monitor closely and review if the situaion gets out of hand. If so we could employ the tactic as you suggested relatively easily. 

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