Re: Ruby Docs with annotations and searching

On Wednesday 17 May 2006 10:42 pm, Sy Ali wrote:
> On 5/17/06, Aran Donohue <[email protected]> wrote:
> > As a technique of fighting spam, has the <a> link tag "rel=nofollow"
> > been considered?
>
> This doesn't work.  It just stops pagerank, not spam..  =)
>
> Maybe some spammers might check for nofollow.. but some do not, and so
> the spam keeps coming.

If the application in question is generating the HTML, it seems like such a 
small thing to do, it is worth trying.  (AIUI, (some) spammers are trying to 
achieve high page rank, when they find out they can't on a particular site, 
they seem to move on.)

Randy Kramer

IIUC, to implement this technique, the code that creates the markup for the 
link simply has to include the extra "rel=nofollow" in the markup for the 
(all) link(s).