AOL Journals hasn't been hit by comment spam yet as far as I know, but
I'm sure it's just a matter of time. We're somewhat protected
because we don't allow anonymous comments, but comment
spammers can get around that once they put some effort into it.
So AOL Journals plans to support the initiative to make at least one form of
comment spam ineffective -- the rel="nofollow" attribute.
The idea is that this would be honored by search engines such as
Google, and would mean that these links wouldn't count towards
increasing the page rank of the target. So, this form of spam
would be rendered useless immediately. Of course, other forms
would still persist, but I say it's better to light a candle than curse
the darkness. Or at least do both in parallel.
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