Description of problem: It was brought up awhile ago that we should by default, include rel="nofollow" on all links in comments. Otherwise we are inviting spammers to post comments with links to their sites in order to gain seo backlinks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow Recent examples https://openshift.redhat.com/community/comment/reply/11392/22363 https://openshift.redhat.com/community/comment/reply/11459/22727
Fixed by adding rel="nofollow" to all links in comments. https://github.com/openshift/li/pull/248 devenv_2008
(In reply to comment #1) Tested using external links like "www.baidu.com" or "www.google.com", it will be embeded like "https://ec2-23-22-203-28.compute-.amazonaws.com/community/forums/express/www.google.com", so can not redirect to external site from links in our comments, thanks.
This can be handled by the input filter.
We need to create a separate input format on production for comments with the "Spam deterrent" checkbox created. I'm reverting the fix in production because it was the cause of bug 869203
If we change the default format then all content created by most users will default to having nofollow - which includes content created in blog posts and forum threads.
Created a story to cover this https://rally1.rallydev.com/#/4670513817d/detail/userstory/9535973774
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