On: Y Combinator's Hacker News NoFollows Some Links?

[pg]

(= follow-threshold* 5)

[portLAN → pg]

Another asterisk?

    (= *follow-threshold* 5) 

The markup eats leading newlines and turns code blocks into normal text, and the normal text eats asterisks. Might I suggest backquote code quoting, and backslash escaping of special chars? (Markdown)

[pg → portLAN]

This is Arc, not CL. As part of the general plan to GC CL in Arc, I decided it would be enough to use one asterisk on globals. I now prefer one to two; an asterisk at the end is like one in text, warning you of an exceptional situation.

[davidw → portLAN]

+1 for markdown:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27783

[apgwoz → pg]

I've always been under the impression that nofollow doesn't really matter if you're linking to your own site and then redirecting. However, I can't seem to find support to back up this claim...

Edit: I noticed Hacker News direct links. But, does anyone have any thoughts on my previous comment?

[merrick33 → apgwoz]

Search engines give credit to 301 redirects, so it depends on how you handle those redirects.

[apgwoz → merrick33]

Oh, OK. That's good to know. Thanks.