08/08: Goodbye To DoFollow

I have come to the decision after over two years to remove the "dofollow" status for comments on this blog.

I think I have been more than patient and asked repeatedly that people not abuse the dofollow status of my blogs but it would seem that, as so often in life, a large percentage of idiots have to ruin things for legitimate visitors and those who genuinely have something useful to add and wish to enter into discussion.

I can no longer keep up with deleting the number of stupid spam comments from so many people who are either using posting software or misguidedly paying for comments to be posted on their behalf in an attempt to gain backlinks. I have a life and better things to do.

As soon as I get around to it this blog will revert to nofollow on all comments with no exceptions. The people who try to game the system once again triumph in destroying a good thing for good people.

It's goodbye to DoFollow and that's a real shame. To those who continue to abuse the idea, all you will eventually achieve is the total disappearance of all dofollow sites, effectively destroying everything you have done. Clever or stupid? You decide.

TCH

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