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by gkop 2061 days ago
Isn’t that why we add rel=nofollow to low friction user submitted links on our platforms?
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Google changed the interpretation of those a year ago. https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/09/evolving-nofollow-...
> Looking at all the links we encounter can also help us better understand unnatural linking patterns.

It appears as though they want to mark these links in order to prevent inorganic SEO, not help it.