PersonalFark rarely updates their site so I was surprised when my best of the internet script wasn't working. It grabs all fark posts over 120 comments guaranteeing removal of all mediocrity. The last time fark change it was for something pretty simple. Instead of onclick="c(); return true" they changed it to onclick="return c();". This time they added rel="nofollow".
Many people were starting to use open source software like phpnuke, shoutboxes, phpbb and other forum software to generate their own sites. As exploites were found people made bots to go through and comment / post spam every single website form they crawled through. The massive amounts of inward links gave the sites high pagerank and increased visitors.
Google added the tag rel="nofollow" so that people with user posted content would keep the google bot in their site to increase their traffic and prevent spammers from getting any credit. This is normally fine since in most cases the sites are not actively moderated.
Fark is somewhat strict on what content they let on the frontpage they really have no reason to add rel nofollow other than to selfishly point all links to only fark when there's a crawler around. In the end this hurts search engine relevance because the best links that were uncreditted are intermixed with mediocre and new content. Digg.com shamefully does the same. If it has over 1000 diggs it should get some kind of credit. Much of the traffic digg has enjoyed comes from linking their own comment-on-this-site, pagerank with credit, while adding no follow to the actual site itself that has the content. Shame on them for abusing rel nofollow.
I'm not totally worried, because to be fair, one site on a super high pagerank site could grossly win a high ranking for any keyword, just in the insanity if hype. I give google a lot of credit for generating disgustingly amazing quality statistics to create relevant search results.
Instead of using some kind of javascript to, I guess track outbound links they switched it to a perl based tracker that redirects people to the actual site onclick. They also query string encoded the stupid thing to I guess prevent people from directly linked content. Wasn't that hard, but annoying. Go to hell fark.
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