See this yahoo blog post 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

Becomes this:

buy now

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clockwerx@www.spreadfirefox.com’s picture

clockwerx@www.spreadfirefox.com commented

6.12 Link types

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.

chrisada’s picture

chrisada commented
Title: Comment: rel=nofollow » Use attribute rel=nofollow in comment's link

+1 for the feature

It seems to me this might be easier accomplished as an input filter?

bradtem’s picture

bradtem commented
Status: Active » Needs review
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Here's the trivial patch to includes/common.inc to change this.

Stefan Nagtegaal’s picture

Stefan Nagtegaal commented

Isn't such a thing already in HEAD? I thought Walkagh brought us such a patch, not sure though.. Can't check atm.

Bèr Kessels’s picture

Bèr Kessels commented

it is, but not in 4.5.what do we do with these 4.5 issues. 4.5 does not get any new features, so the patch will stay in here forever... can we close it?

chx’s picture

chx commented
Status: Needs review » Closed (won't fix)

this is a classical case of "won't fix". Won't fix in 4.5, that is. Nothing will be fixed in 4.5.