[drupal-devel] rel=nofollow

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Dries Buytaert wrote:

> Chris Messina wrote:
> > In any case, I think that we should be very careful about implementing
> > this new tool -- powerful though it may be, for it threatens to weaken
> > wild-westiness™ (as Steven said) of the web while only mildly imposing
> > upon the spammers.
>
> Or on the user admin page we could add a new feature: 'Delete all posts
> from this user' which lets you mass-delete nodes/comments from a spammer.
>
> This could be implemented as a simple checkbox on the 'Delete user?'
> confirmation page.
>
> We could also leverage the new flood protection mechanism (see
> contact.module) in both the node and comment modules.

If you or anybody else decides to do that, please do it in a way that can
be bypassed. We once had such a feature and it was most annoying for use
with mailhandler or similar automatic posting.

Cheers,
	Gerhard