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wincent / masochist

⛓ Website infrastructure for over-engineers
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Consider adding `rel="nofollow"` to external links coming from Markdown content #109

Open wincent opened 7 years ago

wincent commented 7 years ago

Split off from https://github.com/wincent/masochist/issues/17.

This is a feature we used to have in the old wikitext renderer (via the external_link_rel option, although I don't think I actually used it).

wincent commented 7 years ago

Example of a reason not to use it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow#Criticism_of_usage_by_Wikipedia