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Search Engines Team with Bloggers To Fight Spam. I've got a few quotes in there:

"It's not a panacea, but I think the initiative will help," said David Czarnecki, blojsom founder.

And:

"Spammers are hoping that their comment spams made to blogs are indexed and will eventually increase their ranking in search engines for their sites," Czarnecki said.

Finally:

This can be more than a mere annoyance for some blog owners, said Czarnecki. He pointed out that if a 3rd-grade teacher were to set up a blog for students, hundreds of comments about Viagra or online gambling would be more than unwelcome.

Help the fight against comment spam! Do it for the 3rd grade bloggers everywhere!

NoFollow plugin for blojsom

The nofollow plugin adds support for searching through hyperlinks in comments and trackbacks and adding rel="nofollow" for hyperlinks without this attribute. This removes any search engine ranking that comment spammers might hope to get from leaving comment spam on your blog.

Simple and easy to install!

It will add rel="nofollow" to hyperlinks in comments and trackbacks. If a hyperlink already contains a value for the rel attribute, it will preserve that and add nofollow to the value.

The other areas you might want to look at in your blojsom templates would be where you're printing out comments and trackbacks, similar to <a href="$entryComment.getAuthorURL()">. You might want to change that to <a href="$entryComment.getAuthorURL()" rel="nofollow">. I'll be updating the templates to add the rel="nofollow" attribute to those areas.

This plugin and the template changes will be included in the next version of blojsom.

Looks like Simon has a nofollow plugin for Pebble. Good deal!