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Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Article about LW: Faith, Hope, and Singularity: Entering the Matrix with New York’s Futurist Set - Less Wrong Discussion

31 Post author: malo 25 July 2012 07:28PM

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Comment author: Wei_Dai 26 July 2012 07:40:39PM *  13 points [-]

Did you know you can put a "nofollow" attribute on a link and control search ranking that way?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 July 2012 09:20:37PM -2 points [-]

We don't have sufficient development resources to do very basic things with the LW codebase. This is one of them.

Comment author: Wei_Dai 26 July 2012 09:27:20PM 19 points [-]

You can edit the post manually and put it in. In the post editor, click on the "HTML" toolbar icon to go into source code mode and then change the link so it looks like

<a rel="nofollow" href="http://...">link text</a>

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 26 July 2012 10:22:35PM 14 points [-]

Huh. I tested this and it appeared to work, which surprised me, because it'd been previously claimed that this HTML editor would filter all attributes not explicitly allowed (e.g. to filter Javascript misbehavior). Perhaps that one is explicitly allowed.