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Yes, I understand what nofollow is for. The links do work, but they are not followed by search engines, which means content is not credited, as it should be. A
by captn3m0 12y ago
Yes, I understand what nofollow is for. The links do work, but they are not followed by search engines, which means content is not credited, as it should be.
Also, the title was styled after a similar blog post about StackOverflow (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4774470 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4774470).
- butwhy 12y agoWhy should it be? They own the site, so they don't need to give up their link juice to every legit person and every spammer who wants to link out from their site. Your own link just stated that they enacted nofollow due to abuse and because Google was punishing them by removing pages all together. Then you go on and call them "abusers" for protecting their content. wat.
- captn3m0 12y agoI'm not saying that removing nofollow for medium is the right solution. That would be inviting a horde of spammers on to the site. However, there can be better solutions (such as the ones by StackOverflow). Content quality (which can be measured by medium) to allow good quality content have outbound links would be another. A simple start would be to have a whitelist of domains that can be considered authoritative (as suggested in the linked tweet). Yes, this is a hard problem, but it needs to be solved.
- butwhy 12y agoNo, it doesn't. Go buy your own domain. off the top of my head, digitalpoint is a popular forum that has always operated with nofollow and I imagine many other sites do, as well.