Comments on: Link Controversy

By: Six Ways to Tell Your Readers Apart Through Comments | The Reader Appreciation Project

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:12:17 +0000

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

By: inspirationbit

inspirationbit — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:59:24 +0000

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.

By: Poll: Turning Off Links in Comments » Reader Appreciation Project

Poll: Turning Off Links in Comments » Reader Appreciation Project — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:39:13 +0000

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

By: Andrew Rickmann

Andrew Rickmann — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:48:27 +0000

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.

By: Louis Liem

Louis Liem — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:18:40 +0000

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…

By: Andrew Rickmann

Andrew Rickmann — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:31:45 +0000

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.

By: Ronald @ RA Project

Ronald @ RA Project — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:17:18 +0000

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.

By: Ronald @ RA Project

Ronald @ RA Project — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:18:24 +0000

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.