Minimum Comment Length is an interesting idea, especially for dofollow blogs such as mine, which sometimes get short and useless posts just after some link love. The only problem is that occasionally, I get short comments from regulars. I don’t mind those ones and it would annoy my regulars if they couldn’t leave those.
I’m working on a new Dofollow plugin, which is only going to remove nofollow for those commentators who are trusted and for those comments which are of good quality – perhaps I’ll add minimum comment length as part of the mix (ie short comments don’t get nofollow disabled).
Anyway, as I said, Minimum Comment Length is a very interesting idea. Thanks Joost.
Stephen, I agree with your comments on the minimum comment length; however would you display how long of a comment you require in order to get the dofollow enabled? I also have a dofollow blog and I’ve run into a little bit of what you’re talking about. However, it seem to me that if you said that “Comments of more than 200 characters get dofollow links” then you’re just opening yourself up to a longer variety of the same garbage you had in the beginning. If you can find a way to make it work, I’ll be your first downloader! =)
Minimum Comment Length is an interesting idea, especially for dofollow blogs such as mine, which sometimes get short and useless posts just after some link love. The only problem is that occasionally, I get short comments from regulars. I don’t mind those ones and it would annoy my regulars if they couldn’t leave those.
I’m working on a new Dofollow plugin, which is only going to remove nofollow for those commentators who are trusted and for those comments which are of good quality – perhaps I’ll add minimum comment length as part of the mix (ie short comments don’t get nofollow disabled).
Anyway, as I said, Minimum Comment Length is a very interesting idea. Thanks Joost.
Slayer’s Ad is a great plugin because of handling different ads.
Very interesting plugin collection, surely going to try some…
Stephen, I agree with your comments on the minimum comment length; however would you display how long of a comment you require in order to get the dofollow enabled? I also have a dofollow blog and I’ve run into a little bit of what you’re talking about. However, it seem to me that if you said that “Comments of more than 200 characters get dofollow links” then you’re just opening yourself up to a longer variety of the same garbage you had in the beginning. If you can find a way to make it work, I’ll be your first downloader! =)