Do follow, don’t follow

Nofollow tags have been popping up a lot as a discussion topic lately. A guest poster at Shoemoney talks about how it's good to use nofollow tags internally to improve SEO for your site. At the same time, many bloggers, like Randa Clay nofollow I follow point out that the nofollow attribute discourages participation in blogs. This all seems like a complete 180 from the way people thought about the nofollow tag when it came out. Anyway, I removed the tag from the comments section of this blog because it's never served a real purpose to me. I have other blogs with the nofollow tag in place that still get spammed out to wazoo. All things being equal, I'd rather share the link juice with contributors than to clam up just to discourage spamming which will always happen anyway.