[...] a commenter’s name as well as a URL is another way to help distinguish between commenters. Many commenters might have the same name [...]

I don’t mind no linked names at all. That’s not the reason why I comment on people’s blogs. But like Louis, I prefer to have a clickable link, instead of select+copy+past – just being lazy here ;-)

It is an interesting experiment nevertheless. Curious to see the results and findings.

[...] Rather than decide whether to implement Do-Follow or No-Follow in his comment’s section, he has decided to turn off links completely. [...]

Thanks Louis,

There is every chance that it won’t work with cocomment, but I don’t know how it works so I can’t say for sure.

I don’t mind no-following at all. but i prefer a live link (nonfollowed) than a plain text. it saves a bit of microcalories for extra clicks and paste it to my address bar.
off topic: does your comment section work with cocomment? i don’t see my cocomment here…

Thanks Ronald,

I was thinking about using some Javascript to make them clickable but I thought I would go for something a little more extreme for the purposes of the debate.

Now that I’ve seen your implementation, I quite like it. Not sure what’ll happen with long URLs though :)

Maybe perhaps a little DOM implementation where when a user hovers over it, it changes into a clickable link.

I’ll definitely be following this and perhaps doing a quick case study on the potential of de-linking commenter’s names in the section.

It’s a good idea in a sense of eliminating do-follow and no-follow from the equation.