PJ Doland, TLF’s webmaster and occasional contributor, has come up with what strikes me as a really clever idea:
Almost two years ago, in an attempt to combat the rising problem of comment spam, Google unveiled a new HTML attribute:
rel=”nofollow”
By including that attribute in hyperlinks, website administrators direct search engines not to give any credit to the linked content. The attribute is generally applied by most blog software to comment and trackback content before it is posted. This obviously minimizes the incentive for comment spamming as a means of improving a site’s PageRank status.
In the same spirit, I am now proposing a new attribute:
rel=”nsfw”
NSFW is an abbreviation often used to indicate that content is “not safe for work.” This new attribute should be applied to tags to indicate that the content is potentially “not safe for work.”
Sounds like a great idea to me. Read the whole thing for details on how it would work and why people would want to use it. There’s also some good discussion of the idea going on over at Digg.
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