Remove "nofollow" tag from links from trusted users' profiles

[RichardTaylor]

Reasonably recent Google guidance, from September 10, 2019, states:

rel="nofollow": Use this attribute for cases where you want to link to a page but don't want to imply any type of endorsement, including passing along ranking credit to another page.

I think we should be passing on ranking credit from WDTK to links in user profiles.

Trusted users could be those with "confirmed not spam" ticked, or those whose account is of a certain age / has a certain activity level.

Related:

• Show the requester's user profile on each request page #6654
• Implement escalating privileges system #229

I suspect I'm the only person who cares about this :)

[WilliamWDTK]

I'd expand this to also exclude trusted domains from rel="nofollow" (e.g. links to other (files.)whatdotheyknow.com pages, mysociety.org…), also from annotations

[RichardTaylor]

annotations

The Google guidance cited above mentions:

rel="ugc": UGC stands for User Generated Content, and the ugc attribute value is recommended for links within user generated content, such as comments and forum posts.