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Jason Morrison: Comment spam is bad stuff all around. It’s bad for you, because it adds to your workload. It’s bad for your users, who want to find information on your site and certainly aren’t interested in dodgy links and unrelated content. It’s bad for the web as a whole, since it discourages people from opening up their sites for user-contributed content and joining conversations on existing forums.
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from eKstreme 1336 Days ago #
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Has using nofollow decreased anyone’s spam? I doubt it discourages any form of spam.

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from Alysson 1336 Days ago #
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I published "Why NOFOLLOW My Comments?" a couple of weeks ago.  I have noticed an increase in the amount of participation in the discussion from readers.  Removing NOFOLLOW commands hasn’t resulted in an increase in SPAM comments at all...at least not yet.  The long term results are yet to be determined, but as of now I have nothing negative to report since removing NOFOLLOW from the comments on my blog posts. 

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