rel=nofollow on article biography links
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Has there been any consideration given to removing the rel=nofollow from a users biography on articles as a reward for giving to the community? This is even alluded to as strategy by Google at Use rel="nofollow" for specific links[^].
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If you want to recognize and reward trustworthy contributors, you could decide to automatically or manually remove the nofollow attribute on links posted by members or users who have consistently made high-quality contributions over time.
I would expect this would be limited to certain conditions to prevent spamming, a couple of obvious ones to me would be:
- Specific articles where views >=50k and rating >=4
- All articles for a user where the user has a certain reputation say gold or platinum
My personal preference if this were to go ahead would be specific articles over a certain threshold this ensures that the reward is given to articles that haven proven to be useful to the community at large. -David