Wordpress, like most other major blogging platforms, automatic add ‘no follow’ tags to the urls left in any visitor comments or trackbacks. This was initially done in an effort to combat blog comment spam. But there are now a growing number of people who believe ‘no follow’ tags create more blog spam - not less!
Why would I (or anybody) remove the ‘no follow’ tags from all visitor comments & trackbacks on their blog?
Community Fairness, Equity, & Available Technology
Community fairness, equity? People who legitimately comment on this blog (and all blogs) aren’t spammers. They are contributing to an ongoing, distributed conversation - their comments provide value to the sites they post on.
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Minic Rivera at the Blog Herald reported today on Six Apart’s new social media solutions that can be built on top of Movable Type 4. The enterprise solution can host a community of 1000s of blogs for a company or department.
I’ve yet to learn more about this. Does anyone have any information about how this solution would compare to a open source installation of the Elgg social networking platform. From what I have seen, the standard Elgg installation has a solid blogging platform built-in, and of course the open source code enables simple ways to extend its functionality.
I would love to hear any advantages of using a system such as Six Apart’s new social media solution over Elgg.
