Whilst I abhor spam as much as the next man and woman, I do wonder what Google is going to do with it's algorithm when it's nagging has caused all sites to go nofollow.

Cindy,

Agreed! My sentiments exactly. It's getting to te point that pretty soon everything on the web will be no follow.

Nofollow is a philosophy that says spam is OK for humans but not good enough for Google's bots.

I hate the nofollow craze. OK we use to mixx it up, but now...

Google is crashing the whole social networking scene. What an ugly company, at least microsoft never started telling people how to set up your web sites, or they would force windows to reboot.

I've stopped using NoFollow on any internal links. Why? Google is now "evaporating" your page rank slice that goes out to these links. Beats me why they do this since it would mean to get the same effect you'd need to hide them using some weird non-crawlable Javascript (bad idea).

NoFollow has now reverted back to its original purpose - for marking user created links to off-domain pages. That's all it should be used for. :)