I'd like to do this, so that "spam comments" don't give them any juice. Is it possible to adjust things so this happens to posts made by users? (But perhaps NOT to those posted by admin or perhaps not to links that are posted with our own URL?)

Thanks

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Q: How does a link change?
A: Any link that a user can create on your site automatically gets a new "nofollow" attribute. So if a blog spammer previously added a comment like

Visit my <a href="http://www.example.com/">discount pharmaceuticals</a> site.

That comment would be transformed to

Visit my <a href="http://www.example.com/" rel="nofollow">discount pharmaceuticals</a> site.

Q: What types of links should get this attribute?
A: We encourage you to use the rel="nofollow" attribute anywhere that users can add links by themselves, including within comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists. Comment areas receive the most attention, but securing every location where someone can add a link is the way to keep spammers at bay.

I was thinking this already happened on links...

test

Holy dern, it isn't!

Seems 7.3 does this:

Processed URL in 7.3a2

Well not new, has been around for about 3 years at least.
Suppose we don't have it because often not as big an issue as blogs that often allow posting anonymously.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html

we (can) allow anon posting

So can we do that?

sure, set a forum to allow guests to post ;)...

as for the norel, it's built into 7.3; or you ccould hack it in on prior versions by editing the bbcode.

When can we expect 7.3 by the way?

Thanks

After beta... When will you see public beta (if there is one?) after private beta... When will you see private beta? Well, the private beta will likely be rolled out here...

Want to play with an alpha? Check the beta testers sites... Mine for sake of alpha is the one I use for raw testing, which is here