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Originally Posted by princeton

SOME CONTROLS ARE NEEDED
I think there should be some controls.

For example, converting all posted links with rel="nofollow" also punishes those who are loyal to the site.

Why not help your loyal members with their site "popularity"? Do not convert links posted by loyal users. Allow the search engines to follow these links. Some sites can even list this as a membership benefit. -- just throwing ideas

Anyway, what I'm trying to get to is that the ADMIN should have some control over what links get rel="nofollow".

As it is now, all "in-house" links are tagged with rel="nofollow" which may hurt your "popularity".

Alrighty then, try this:

PHP Code:

    if ($type == 'url')
    {
        global $bbuserinfo;

    if (is_member_of($bbuserinfo, 6))
        {
        // standard URL hyperlink
        return "<a href=\"$rightlink\" target=\"_blank\">$text</a>";
        }
        else
        {
         return "<a href=\"$rightlink\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">$text</a>";
        }
    }
    else 


This will make it so anyone who is an admin (group 6 - change this to whatever you want) will not have their links tagged with the nofollow attribute.

The syntax for multiple groups escapes me at present, but if someone can remind me, I will change it.