Opened 4 months ago

Last modified 4 months ago

#19029 new enhancement

Disarm spam links in comment edit history by adding rel=nofollow

Reported by: thebuck Owned by: nielx
Priority: low Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Website/Trac Version:
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Platform: All

Description

Edit history should probably generally be hidden from search engines. So add a rel="nofollow" attribute to both edit history links of each comment:

Last edited ... (previous) (diff)

Example spam is in last comment of #16903.

Change History (4)

comment:1 by waddlesplash, 4 months ago

I'm not sure how possible this is in Trac. In general we prefer to just delete spam comments; I've taken care of that one.

comment:2 by nephele, 4 months ago

Only administrators or so can delete comments, which is why in the past moderator action has sometimes only reverted spam comments to an "empty" message.

edit: also pulkomandy mentioned that those comments land on some mailing list, and that may be a factor of why this would be attractive to spammers.

Last edited 4 months ago by nephele (previous) (diff)

comment:3 by pulkomandy, 4 months ago

I think this is better reported on Trac's own bugtracker at ​https://trac.edgewall.org. It sounds like a general feature they could have, and not Haiku specific.

in reply to:  3 comment:4 by thebuck, 4 months ago

Raised ​https://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/13780 .

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Delete spam comments which only have been edited away.

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