Comments on: NFS Comments Policy

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:23:08 +0000

Hi PC/Jordan, that is weird, we have a spam filter that automatically does a great job of filtering out all the bad comments, but it is weird that yours came and then went. I know who you are (as in you are a cool forum member) so I find it really hard to believe I would have deleted your comment without realising. So many apologies and please keep posting!

By: Perro Callejero

Perro Callejero — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:07:39 +0000

Sorry I’m a bit late on this, and I wasn’t going to bring it up, but since I see this post I thought it might be opportune to ask.

I posted a comment on a post several weeks ago that was not inflammatory at all, did not include language, etc. It appeared, but a day later it was gone. Did I do something wrong? I certainly didn’t mean to, I just wanted to ask so I could avoid it in the future!

The only thing I could think of is that sometimes I forget which I used last and put “Perro Callejero” or “Jordan” in the name box, so I guess that might fall into the “two different names, same IP” rule.

By: Jonk

Jonk — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:08:49 +0000

That’s bizarre. Free speech FTW

By: Matt NY

Matt NY — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:11:30 +0000

http://www.inquisitr.com/1504/spanish-riaa-sues-and-wins-blog-comment-case/

and there’s the article.

By: Matt NY

Matt NY — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:10:59 +0000

Apparently you also need to watch out for comments that other people post on your blog, because in Spain you can be held accountable for them.

I just read this article about a blogger who was sued by the SGAE, (the General Society of Authors and Publishers) or the Spanish RIAA, for having a post on his blog in which, the court says, the comments that were left damaged the “honor” of the SGAE.

The article asks, “The questions then raised: is it safe for anyone is Spain to offer open comments on a blog? and is this even a legal under European law?”

By: Jonk

Jonk — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:31:18 +0000

Ben yeh you’re right 100% about the PR thing. I think what people angle for is the relevance thing… Although I just did some research and it says that it doesnt pass on relevance at all.

@ Tom as far as I understand the Nofollow attribute for the comment names is added elsewhere, in the Meta Tags or something like that. And then whichever spider automatically doesn’t pass PR on the names.

It’s an interesting topic.

Anyway this sounds bad but I have a PR5 and a PR6 blog and I have taken nofollow off the comments there, and regularly slip in my own comments linking back to my other sites.

By: gary

gary — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:37:24 +0000

It just seems to me that having good and interesting content is the only way to ‘game’ Google – ie not game them at all but deal with people not algorythms…

I enjoyed these articles

http://www.internet-based-business-mastery.com/index.php?s=buzz+marketing

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:56:44 +0000

Yes, a no follow was added automatically to the link above. But I really doubt that keyword laden ‘name’ fields in wordpress blog comments does much for pagerank, the Goog will have covered that.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:54:35 +0000

I think the nofollow only shows up in links that are posted IN comments themselves. Like this:

http://www.notesinspanish.com (is great )

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:47:44 +0000

@Jonk – Hmm… well I checked the source for this very page. The rel=’nofollow’ or rel=’external nofollow’ only shows up on links to NFS feeds or in the ‘Recent Comments’ widget in the sidebar. I can’t see how it could be happening if it doesn’t show up in the code for this page, or on my own blog.

Unless we’re talking at cross purposes.