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@daniel such a plugin eistxs, it is called . It removes no-follow of commenters after a certain number of comments, default is 10.As I often say, I like to see the blogosphere as a huge conversation among many people. I truly admire the way Seth Godin has set his blog so feedback comes only by trackback. I interpret this like: do you want to follow the discussion? Don’t spend a minute on a comment, spend twenty on a post.That is worthy feedback, and is a very horizontal way of talking, blogger to blogger instead of blogger to visitor, but certainly doesn’t work form most blogs (it won’t work to mine, for sure).I like the naive view that what counts on comments, like in any conversation, is good impression you make, human to human, and I would like to believe that google should follow and not the other way around.I think every commenter deserves a link and I would like to open do-follow comments on my blog soon.Enough of philosophy! Some practical stuff.I am using Akismet, but it hasn’t been necessary since . Not a single spam comment appeared since then, I am very happy with it.The linklove plugin I commented above seems also nice.I heard about some blogs that do-follow the commenter web site, but no-follow any link within the comment. Seems practical. Nevertheless, I think that a good commenter should be awarded a link and not a recurrent one.A last thing that I haven’t tested, but seems a good path to go:Spam is always automatic, because man-hour to handcrafted spam would be too expensive and is shortsightened, so What about changing the name o the file that handles comments (comments.php in wordpress) to some customized name.All the full-of-links spam I got, never even reached my tracking systems and I assume this is because the page was never loaded, a bot probably just connected direclty to comments.php.I want to concept-proof this idea, but I really didn’t had the time yet And for the last, I won’t stop commenting if you turn to no-follow, because I comment for humans (even though I dream of the day search bots will be able to follow us on this)[OMG, another huge comment, I hope anyone will read it ]
@daniel such a plugin eistxs, it is called . It removes no-follow of commenters after a certain number of comments, default is 10.As I often say, I like to see the blogosphere as a huge conversation among many people. I truly admire the way Seth Godin has set his blog so feedback comes only by trackback. I interpret this like: do you want to follow the discussion? Don’t spend a minute on a comment, spend twenty on a post.That is worthy feedback, and is a very horizontal way of talking, blogger to blogger instead of blogger to visitor, but certainly doesn’t work form most blogs (it won’t work to mine, for sure).I like the naive view that what counts on comments, like in any conversation, is good impression you make, human to human, and I would like to believe that google should follow and not the other way around.I think every commenter deserves a link and I would like to open do-follow comments on my blog soon.Enough of philosophy! Some practical stuff.I am using Akismet, but it hasn’t been necessary since . Not a single spam comment appeared since then, I am very happy with it.The linklove plugin I commented above seems also nice.I heard about some blogs that do-follow the commenter web site, but no-follow any link within the comment. Seems practical. Nevertheless, I think that a good commenter should be awarded a link and not a recurrent one.A last thing that I haven’t tested, but seems a good path to go:Spam is always automatic, because man-hour to handcrafted spam would be too expensive and is shortsightened, so What about changing the name o the file that handles comments (comments.php in wordpress) to some customized name.All the full-of-links spam I got, never even reached my tracking systems and I assume this is because the page was never loaded, a bot probably just connected direclty to comments.php.I want to concept-proof this idea, but I really didn’t had the time yet And for the last, I won’t stop commenting if you turn to no-follow, because I comment for humans (even though I dream of the day search bots will be able to follow us on this)[OMG, another huge comment, I hope anyone will read it ]