[theforum] Vote re: nofollow tags in articles

[Dave Davies]

As an author I'd put my vote in for removing the rel="nofollow" from 
article links.

If a link is a vote and we can agree that publishing the content implies 
appreciation of the author's work then a vote is a fair thing to pass in 
this case.

I completely understand keeping rel="nofollow" in other areas. :)

But that's just my two bits worth ...

Dave Davies
Beanstalk Search Engine Positioning, Inc.
http://www.beanstalk-inc.com/



Drs Marcel Feenstra, MALD, MBA wrote:
> On October 17th, Dean Mah wrote:
>
>   
>> Sounds good.  Let's put this baby to a vote on Monday.  Anyone
>> interested in making comments has until then to chime in.
>>     
>
> That Monday (October 22nd), David Kaufman wrote:
>
>   
>> Dean called a vote on the matter of whether or not to continue evolt's
>> current procedure of adding nofollow tags to links in articles on the
>> site.
>>
>> The thread began here:
>> http://lists.evolt.org/theforumarchive/Week-of-Mon-20071008/thread.html
>>
>> And continued here:
>> http://lists.evolt.org/theforumarchive/Week-of-Mon-20071015/thread.html
>>
>> The voting was supposed to end this weekend past, but no one voted over
>> the
>> weekend and I was just wondering if that was because
>>
>> a) no one cares who has not already voted,
>>
>> b) people were ignoring the thread, and unaware that a
>>    vote was called, or
>>
>> c) no one is subscribed to the forum anymore :-)
>>
>>
>> I can't do much about a) or c) but, since there was no message posted
>> to
>> the forum with "vote" in the subject, I figured I'd post this to get
>> their
>> attention, and maybe let them weigh in with their opinions, too.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -dave ...wondering about the legality of extending the election due to
>> low
>> voter turnout :-)
>>     
>
> So the original election, which was supposed to run for five days, has now
> been extended by three weeks, and AFAICT, there have been no votes on this
> issue since October 23rd... Just wondering if/when it would it be reasonable
> to tally the votes!
>
> Marcel
>
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