685642 - Links posted in questions and forums don't have rel="nofollow"

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(support.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

I am pretty sure we did this right at some point, but right now all links are passing google juice. Once the SEO kids find out they will spam us with links. For example:
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/868933

Lets add tests to make sure we don't regress.

Comment 1

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

I think we did this to make on-site links not have rel="nofollow". I added an option to bleach to allow relative links to skip it but there were issues and it got backed out.

Comment 2

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

(In reply to James Socol [:jsocol, :james] from comment #1)
> I think we did this to make on-site links not have rel="nofollow". I added
> an option to bleach to allow relative links to skip it but there were issues
> and it got backed out.
For now, I was planning on adding nofollow everywhere _except_ wiki documents since those go through review anyway. Whitelisting certain domains would be a nice feature.

Comment 3

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

https://github.com/jsocol/kitsune/commit/6fc253a39464bd34702ac95f22673732716b8925

Comment 4

[Rebecca Billings [:rbillings]]

I am able to click a link in the forum- is that expected? EX; https://support-release.allizom.org/en-US/forums/test/707538

Comment 5

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

(In reply to Rebecca Billings from comment #4)
> I am able to click a link in the forum- is that expected? EX;
> https://support-release.allizom.org/en-US/forums/test/707538

Links remain clickable, they just need to have `rel="nofollow"` so that google and other search engine spiders ignore them.

Comment 6

[Rebecca Billings [:rbillings]]

Verified link has 'rel="nofollow"' on it.