Re: Donations Links

Dear Darrin,

thank you for your reply. Please find my comments below:

Darrin Chandler schrieb:
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:48:53PM +0100, Heiko Gerstung wrote:
>   
>> I wonder why you use the nofollow argument on your List of Donations 
>> page, getting a link from a page with a high PR is a nice benefit and I 
>> have no idea why you are not granting this (free) bonus to your donators.
>>
>> It is fully understandable that a Wiki or any other web page that shows 
>> user-created content is using nofollow to render this page useless to 
>> wiki spammers (despite the ongoing debate regarding this topic), but on 
>> a "Donations" list page? C'mon!
>>     
>
> Donating should be its own reward. I have donated and have a link. I'm
> FINE with the nofollow, or robots.txt exclusion, or whatever. I donated
> to help the project a little, not to gain fame and fortune. That *any*
> amount will get you on the donation page is a nice, free bonus. And
> notice that there are no amounts next to the name, so for a little money
> you can get listed right along someone who paid a lot. Nice, eh?
>   
Yes, very nice :-) No problem for me to set up a "Corporate Sponsors" 
page which only gives you the "big PR" for a certain amount of money 
(which you could spend for buying PR somewhere else, without the major 
benefit of giving money to a worthful clause)

> If you want PR, learn how to get it or pay SEO fees.
>   
Thank you for the advice, but most things that give you PR are tricks, 
and I would not want that. Getting one nice link from a nice web site 
because of a donation is one of the better approaches for me, not using 
SEO optimization and multi-site crosslinking and whatever.

Sorry for bringing this up, I just found that freebsd.org does not seem 
to have nofollows on their web page and Samba.org has a nice page 
describing a couple of commercial products that are using samba.

Anyway, I got your point and I guess we just agree to disagree.

Thanks again,

Best Regards,
Heiko