Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/15835 Post a follow up: http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/15835 Project: Drupal Version: 4.5.0 Component: comment.module Category: feature requests Priority: normal Assigned to: Anonymous Reported by: clockwerx@www.spreadfirefox.com Updated by: bradtem -Status: active +Status: patch Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/nofollow.patch (0 bytes) Here's the trivial patch to includes/common.inc to change this. bradtem Previous comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:07:28 +0000 : clockwerx@www.spreadfirefox.com See this yahoo blog post [1] if you haven't already. " By adding a rel="nofollow" attribute to hyperlinks, webmasters and weblog owners can tell search engines that the links are effectively untrusted. For example, this: buy now [2] Becomes this: buy now [3] " [1] http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000069.html [2] http://spammer.example.com/ [3] http://spammer.example.com/\" rel=\"nofollow ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:11:52 +0000 : clockwerx@www.spreadfirefox.com 6.12 Link types [4] Authors may use the following recognized link types, listed here with their conventional interpretations. In the DTD, %LinkTypes refers to a space-separated list of link types. White space characters are not permitted within link types. " So, you should perhaps be appending this to any existing comment links with a rel attribute. [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#type-links ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:56:25 +0000 : chrisada +1 for the feature It seems to me this might be easier accomplished as an input filter?