NoFollow Links on Hacker News

Post by rockstar9 » Fri, Apr 25, 2008, 9:17 PM UTC

Post by rms » Fri, Apr 25, 2008, 10:14 PM UTC

graywh wrote: post #2

The rationale being that HN wants to reward the websites that hackers find useful or meaningful and not give free linking to spam?

Post by philippp » Fri, Apr 25, 2008, 11:37 PM UTC

Post by boucher » Sat, Apr 26, 2008, 12:13 AM UTC

    a[rel~="nofollow"] {
        background-color: rgba(255,0,0,0.10);
        //background-color: rgb(255,0,0);//for people without rgba
    }

Post by rms » Sat, Apr 26, 2008, 12:43 AM UTC

Bluem00 wrote: post #8

rms wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. I wonder if the follow/no follow barrier should be raised due to karma inflation, though.

Here's an idea to reward high quality posts in a way robust to karma inflation: You could change the criteria for a follow/nofollow decision to use the time a link spends on the front page (e.g. the top 30). High scoring posts stay there for a while, while low scoring posts will drop off quickly. A similar approach could be used to dynamically set the karma barrier, if you don't want to track the rank of individual p…