The link on GitHub to the real site is marked with rel="nofollow". I wonder if it would make sense for GitHub to remove nofollow in some circumstances. Perhaps based on some sort of reputation system or if the site links back to the repo with a <link rel="self" href="..." /> in the header? Presumably that would help the real site rank higher when the repo ranks highly.

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geocar 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't see any reason that GitHub should use rel="nofollow"

Github only has authority because people put their shit there; if people want to point that back at the "right" website, Github should be helping facilitate that, instead of trying to help Google make their dogshit search index any better.

I mean, seriously, doesn't Bing own Github anyway?

	▲	pocksuppet 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Perverse incentives strike again! Websites that allow links in user-generated content are spammed with user-generated spam links to improve SEO of spam sites, which hurts the site's own reputation because most of the links on it are spam. To avoid this, all sites use nofollow.