Not surprisingly, the "link condom" attribute -- much like the occasional cheap or damaged contraceptive device -- doesn't always work. The new nofollow tag quickly became known as a "link condom," and experts at conferences across the world...
Links link condom" (see Link Condom: The But far from a joke, I later wrote a follow up on how the link condom parody site was a good jumping off point on how nofollow had many other uses, including as a means for those selling links to tell...
More about this in my past article, More On Link Condom experimentally" or not. It never was going to be a complete solution to comment spam, nor has it been. He'd already signed on to the nofollow comment spam fighting initiative.
Condom & Blogger Worries Over Nofollow. As I've written before, such arguments bring the bloggers making them much closer to the comment spammers they despise. So this comment from Robert's post echoes with me:
Earlier, I posted about the Link Condom site that went up, which pokes some fun at the new nofollow attribute. Link condom? If that's what you wanted, you'd better know they've put a "condom" in the form of nofollow around that link.
