After reading around about the nofollow attribute, I decided to remove it from my comments.

The “nofollow” attribute is added to a link, when you want to let the search engines know that you don’t vouch for that specific site. This way, the search engines won’t count this particular link as a “vote of confidence”.

As many of you know (those who don’t know, I mentioned it in previous articles), I promised my readers to only supply links to sites I trust. I cannot expect my readers to trust me, when they get send to sites I don’t trust. One exception to this rule is when I provide a link to a bad example, in which case I’ll clearly make a note of it.

Comments
So if this is my way of thinking, why should I not give the people who comment on my articles my “vote of confidence”? If people take their time to participate in my small community, I can only look for ways to reward them. When you help me build my community, I give you my vote.

Exceptions
This, however, is also subject to my own discretion. If I, for whatever reason, think that a link does not deserve my vote, I will add the nofollow attribute to that link, whether it’s a link in my posts or the comments.