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Originally Posted by djbaxter

The rel="nofollow" tag was designed to reduce link spamming, especially blog comment spamming.

It really hasn't been successful in achieving that goal. It never had "reducing PR leak" as a goal because "PR leak" doesn't exist.

I don't have to know the details of Google's algorithms to know that it's a myth. Neither does anyone else.

But all of this is off-topic. My intent was not to initiate a multi-page debate but just to alert the author to the error in the claim he was making for a mod that otherwise may be useful for many forum owners.

But there is one very important reason that does indeed reduce your PR... connecting to bad neighborhood. Link spamming your competitors to bad neighborhoods is a Machiavellian technique used by some forum and blog competitors.