Some more reasons why the nofollow attribute will not stop comment spam.

Er, has everyone forgotten the lessons we have learned in the past ten years about Usenet and email spam? Those communities have already implemented much more powerful technologies, and the level of spam keeps increasing. The blog world is immune from this reality for what reason…? Fact: anything spammers can do to automate their activities, they will do so aggressively. Quite frankly, even if they never got a drop of “Google juice” for comment spamming, they would continue to run the spambots just for the people who read the comments. Why should they not?

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