Proof that Nofollow = Quality Comments:
Visit the Best Science Blogs.
Visit the Best Science Blogs.
Do you remember Shoemoney’s Pamcake’s eyerolls at the idea that “Nofollow” blogs have good comments? Well, if you need any proof, visit the two blogs currently neck and neck in the “2007: Best Weblogs” contest. At both Climate Audit and Bad Astronomy, you’ll find plenty of heated debate.
The things you won’t find are:
- Automated Spam Comments
- Over SEO’d comment “names” and
- Pink link condoms on the author url links.
In fact, while you will see link condoms in the comment content at Climate Audit, it appears that “Bad Astronomy” is full boar nofollow, giving real “follows” to links in author names, in comment content and trackbacks.
What are the two blogs discussing currently?
To some extent both blogs are discussing the 2007 Weblog awards which became rather contentious. (In comments on some blogs, some are acting as if the outcome of this blog award will determine national policy on Global Climate Change.)
The winner of the competition was scheduled to be announced last night– but the decision was deferred due to voting irregularities which included voting that continued for as much as four hours after poll had closed. The organizers are evidently combing through the data in an attempt to figure out which of the tens of thousands of votes cast were cast by zombie ‘bots.
The winner will be decreed on Monday! (Update, Friday 3:26 pm CST: WeblogsAwards has just officially decreed the “race” a tie.)
Zombie ‘bots voted?!
For those of you wondering whether ‘zombie bot voting was possible, evidently, it was easy! No-Oblimimal has described how to hack Weblog Awards (2007.weblogawards.org/) flimsy ballot security, and what Webblog Awards’s programmers could have done to prevent the ballot stuffing by ‘zombie bots. (It seems the voting system was less secure than my blog comments!)
Hmm…
I think I’m now against internet voting in real elections. (Not that I was ever for it.)
Oh, and despite Pamcakes eyerolls, I am keeping the “follow” on my comments. 
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do follow is just so much more friendly.
Dofollow is much friendlier. That said, I’m now wondering if I should find some nice science blogs where I can express my opinions about. . .
Yep, give me my DoFollow blogging friends over anyone else, anytime. I think there are some great supporters of the movement.
There are a considerable number of whiners too, but, as Grandma used to say, whiners are wieners
I think that comment spam is just a lot more prevalent in the make money online niche than in a science niche because that’s where the scammers are. I’m not sure it has anything to do with dofollow.
@Caroline– You’re probably correct. My title probably should read:
≠ bad comments.
I always forget where that ≠ sign is and get lazy.
As long as backlinks will remain important to the search engines, comment spammers will be there.
The spam plugins seem to work well for the moment as very little spam gets through. But the spammers are always looking for new ways…. They are not picky any niche any place they can spam they will.
I like dofollow a lot more. But I run several anti spam things including a blacklist that catches most things.
Yea, after i found the whole dofollow mentality, i really like the idea of awarding other bloggers that posts meaningful comments on your blog..
Personally i have also enabled a dofollow plugin on my site, and my spam warrior hasn’t had problems following the comment spam i’ve had (granted it’s not really that much, since my site isn’t that visited)..
But i just also love the whole dofollow mentality a lot more than the nofollow one, though i can understand why some people want to keep the nofollow in place..
I totally hate spam comments. Generally spammers are writing very short comment post, secondly they will never become the regular commentor for your blog. One, two or three are enough for them. Finally spammer are using their keywords only never specify their name. Inorder to stop spam after several number of post by the commmentor i say 15post with information content related to the post, he/she will be provided dofollow.
I myself have experience the better result by doing this techniques.