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Like Battelle, I have mixed feelings on Google providing a tag to block links in comments or forums. In the article, it says Typepad will automatically have the tags in place. Does this mean no option for them? It will certainly help with comment spam, but at a price. Since comments and forums allow everyone, even those without sites of their own, to contribute online content, it’s unfortunate that this will reduce their contributions.

UPDATE: Battelle has more comments along these lines:

But what bothers me is that there may well be an ecology that evolves based on the link mojo in comments which we can’t imagine, but that would be important and wonderful, and that will not develop if every comment has a tag telling search engines to ignore it. Like it or not, search engines are now processors of our collective reality, and fiddling with that requires some comtemplation.

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