ProFollow/Discussion

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Traffic is generally good for business NOT suppressing traffic. Restraining traffic also restrains interactions and generally has the opposite effect. As traffic and business interactions are supported and encouraged, even between countries, all of the various participants experience financial growth and increases in the quality of everyday life. Every pebble thrown into the lake generates innumerable ripples and consequences. I believe that removing any restrictions from indexing and following will send beneficiaL ripples further than we can now imagine. Hugh Brecher

What's the opposite of that?

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Hugh Brecher

Currently

What's the current situation with links at AboutUs?

Currently, AboutUsFeatured and AboutUsSpotlighted articles are followed.

  • Featured have gone through our original community process.
  • Spotlighted go through our company process
  • We need to develop a new community process

What's the plan?

  1. The AboutUs DevTeam has created a tool for sysops to turn NoFollow on and off.
  2. This page (ProFollowNoFollowDiscussion) is being used to formulate a policy (including making further recommendations for Dev, if necessary).

Our action

To avoid linking to bad actors, AboutUs has decided to turn on NoFollow for nearly all external links, with certain exceptions. The plan is to continue to expand those exceptions as far as possible to reward the good actors on the internet, while continuing to withhold benefits from bad actors, or those not interested in building this public resource (e.g. AboutUs.org).

Discussions to integrate

Requests to turn off nofollow

Please send new requests to or come chat with us

Pending

Please turn off "nofollow" or just switch it to "follow" for each of the following pages, each of which is my work:

jewelry-casting.net

Thank you, Hugh Brecher

Hugh, please see below for the requests that have been granted. jewlrey-casting.net hasn't been worked on yet (it appears) and thus is still pending. TedErnst (talk)

granted

Hugh has coined the term in the AboutUs Family - :-) ~~ MarkDilley

Suggestions:

What if you were to reward editors who specifically found and added content to a certain number of websites that don’t already exist in the wiki? Say, perhaps, at least 3? That, in conjunction with minimum time that you must be a member before getting your links followed, would both cut down on fly by night editors, only interested in adding their own content, as well as encourage people to find new sites to add.

I know that for myself, and I would guess for most people who are comfortable writing content, doing reviews on 3 sites that are not competing with mine would not be burdensome in the least.

Recently sparked by AboutUs.org + Nofollow = Wha...? --Michael VanDeMar

More Discussion

As we formulate a concrete policy, sysops have the privilege to turn on follow links. I propose that this privilege be used at the discretion of sysops. For example, if a page for an interesting (and not bad-acting) website has at least a few edits made on more than one occasion, a sysop can feel "liberal" in allowing the links to be followed. Thoughts? Julia 18:01, 24 July 2008 (PDT)

I like this idea and have secretly acted on it on a few occasions. I feel more liberty in the hands of sysops 'and active members will also be a step in the right direction. If i come across a page with genuine effort spent on it to make it a better page, i'll share the AboutUs juice with them. --Sa'ad [ talk•email•chat ] 21:49, 24 July 2008 (PDT)

This could be detrimental!

This could be detrimental to the over all page rank of AboutUs.org pages!

This is because one of the factors that Google looks at is the number of external links and how many of those links go to high ranking pages / websites…

Although this “nofollow” edit is more than likely going to remove far more low ranking links… it could also decrease the amount of high ranking links (like the ones to the BBC.co.uk)!!

Because of this I would advise all of the "sysop's" to look at the high traffic websites on AboutUs.org as well as other well-known websites to make sure all of them have there links followed!

Michael Howe

User:stepho123 has done a great job on many pages. Every time I seen him on the AboutUs IRC chat asking for help he has always been very cooperative and his articles are done to a full extent. I think we can trust his pages to be granted to follow links. I changed a few articles as others have as well of his when he went on IRC and requested it. user:stepho123 usually requests when he is completed with the article. Thanks for a great contribution. -- NickBurrus




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