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Comment by iuvcaw | Hacker News Reader

Ironically this post is doing wonders for its page rank, as people are linking to it in the comments

  <a href="https://oneuptime.com/blog" rel="nofollow">https://oneuptime.com/blog</a>

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641348

(By coincidence, see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641829)

rel=nofollow is used to signal that links should not be used by search crawlers for authority calculations on most sites with user-submitted content, including Hacker News.

You basically have to use nofollow for comments otherwise your site becomes a big target for SEO link spam.

Now that we have better ML, maybe we could take "link sentiment" into account too.

I don't know how good it was, but sentiment analysis was definitely a thing pre-ChatGPT.

It was pretty basic though, and even a frontier LLM might struggle to infer that OP is a negative-sentiment link, without sufficient context.

I wonder if we ought to be flagging it then? There's already so much uninteresting AI slop observations.

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