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Weirdly, SEs DO follow nofollow links; they just do not give 'credit' - this works on the basis that the webmaster has not recommended the link; but in the interests of finding new sites, spiders will go.

You'll notice that forums using 'nofollow' tend to get a visible page rank on individual ...

Ah!

I thought that was a joke - software development closed to new features doesn't sound right.

It's not as if this one is difficult!

There has been discussion over a long period at A way to help stop spammers? and some more at spammers, and rel='nofollow' - however, i couldn't find a 'formal request' for nofollow as a new feature.

So here it is:

I'd like to request the inclusion of 'nofollow' to be a "deselectable" feature at ...

I am posting in this thread, as later theads all refer to it (and mostly depracate 'repeating this discussion'). I hope that's OK.

As we all know, there is no ONE WAY to stop forum spam, but ALL the major search ebgines (with Google in the lead, in this instance), have agreed that it helps them ...