{"id":1865,"date":"2009-05-29T16:41:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T15:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2009-05-29T16:41:09","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T15:41:09","slug":"guardian_on_comment_links_and_spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2009\/05\/29\/guardian_on_comment_links_and_spam","title":{"rendered":"Guardian on comment links and spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Guardian Technology supplement had an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2009\/may\/28\/blog-link-spam\">interesting article on comment spam<\/a> and the use of the &#8220;nofollow&#8221; feature to discourage it.  My own view on this is that the value of &#8220;nofollow&#8221; is limited nowadays because of better spam filtering; Akismet takes care of the vast majority of mine, to the extent that I only have to actually moderate a handful of spams a week (there is also Mollom and MT Antispam), and I moderate comments from anyone who has never posted before.  As for genuine comments from people who just want me to advertise their website, and are commercial organisations and don&#8217;t want to pay for the ad, I generally refuse them.  I have no need to suppress the search engine rankings of blogs run by genuine commenters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Guardian Technology supplement had an interesting article on comment spam and the use of the &#8220;nofollow&#8221; feature to discourage it. My own view on this is that the value of &#8220;nofollow&#8221; is limited&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-u5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1866,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions\/1866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}