in my opinion, the slimiest thing that mahalo is doing is scraping content and then nofollowing the attribution links.  nofollow was designed for outgoing links that a publisher cannot vouch for - ie links in blog discussions.<p>but mahalo is nofollowing attribution links to content that THEY have decided to scrape.<p>jason is conflating two things when he says "Do you think we should remove nofollow from our links? we added this to avoid the problem of SEOs coming in and turning Mahalo into a link farm"<p>you can nofollow links created by users but you should not nofollow links to content that YOU decided was worthy of inclusion on your site.<p>it seems very clear to me, that this guy is playing dumb.