How Insulting Is Y!Answers "Know your source? List it here:"?

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Yahoo! Answers asks us "Know your source? List it here:"

However, when they render the URLs we place in there, in HTML code, they insert ... rel="nofollow" ... which, in plain English, means "the link destination may not be relevant to this page".

So, is seems, Yahoo! are saying, "This person thinks they known their source(s), for this answer and they've taken the trouble to cite them, but we don't trust them." - Not very Web 2.0!

I'd like some way of looking at this, that'll restore my faith in Yahoo! Answers.

Things like "Oh, it's to prevent folk spamming search engines." will not do. If that's the case, Y!Answers has a critical design flaw.

If Yahoo! were to remove the "nofollow" from the top 10% "Best Answers" that's be OK. (Forgive my ignorance if, the like of this is already done.) - Ian http://www.MySpace.com/ScrawlAudio

How Insulting Is Y!Answers "Know your source? List it here:"?

ok.

How Insulting Is Y!Answers "Know your source? List it here:"?

If you say so :)

How Insulting Is Y!Answers "Know your source? List it here:"?

Maybe they only do that on certain TYPES of links -- just checked the HTML code of my latest "link" (to WIKI, but it was the quickest to get to -- I don't usually USE WIKI!). It comes up just like this:

href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yah...

So, I'm not sure WHY yours shows that "nofollow" but . . .

How Insulting Is Y!Answers "Know your source? List it here:"?

Huh?

I've both followed and pasted dozens on links have haven't had any problems (well, sometimes the link doesn't work, but that could be for lots of reasons).

What, exactly, are you doing that you're seeing this?

Do you simply paste the link, or are you doing something fancy?