Being a company that ‘loves links’, I thought having the nofollow tag on our comments just didn’t make much sense. I removed the nofollow some time ago and found people kept trying to abuse it, so I took that plugin out.
Thanks to Megadawg for referring me to Lucias Linky Love dofollow plugin. It basically allows you to apply a minimum post count on our readers who comment. Once you hit that number, the nofollow attribute is removed and we’re happy to pass along some link love to our contributors. In other words, it weeds out the good posters from the fake posters.
We’ll be watching and making any necessary tweaks. If you have any suggestions or notice something weird, give us a reply here.
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just wondering if I qualify…
qualify? QUALIFY? Are you JJ ?
You ARE the Mad Genius!!
I think the minimum should be 3, but each one must me made on a separate day.
Lucia is a wonderful plug-in author. I’d removed the “do follow” plug-in for much the same reason and had switched to using hers, too. Unfortunately, that just led to increased meaningless comments by people who were looking for the linky love.
Thanks for the megadawg plug ron! I think the plugin is great and will definitely lead to an increase in comments, and perhaps even rss subscribers… I can also see the point kate is making- it is a pain in the butt trying to find a way to ‘reward’ regular visitors while also blocking the leeches who want link love but don’t want to contribute anything of value to the community. Vultures!
MegaD
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