Has digg gone dofollow

Hi Folks:

I was just looking to confirm if digg has gone dofollow. I distinctly remember that they had put nofollow on their stories earlier. However now I see this in their HTML code.

<a href="http://www.livescience.com/health/081229-sports-youth-exercise.html"
 class="offsite ct-science" target="_blank" onclick="gotoLink('10218055', '6e8252a06307733386e17d4c7176f05b');">Exercise Improves Kids Academics</a>

Code (markup):

Evidently that's not a nofollow link. Though it would execute javascript (for tracking) before a link is opened but for a bot it's a simple dofollow link.

I don't see nofollow in upcoming stories page or even individual stories with only 1 digg. Do others know when digg went dofollow? (I was probably sleeping).

 

its a javascript type linking so its not really dofollow

 

That's not true man. Bots won't even process the 'onClick' thing and if you consider that, the link is very much a dofollow link. The link will work on lynx or links browser.

 

i thought digg always was dofollow?

 

i dont remember digg being nofollow in the past

 

It wasn't, but every time someone here asks if Digg is nofollow a bunch of people say "yes" for some unknown reason.

 

I think the answer is yes.Because I can found backlinks from digg from google webmaster tool

 

Links from comments are nofollow, at least those from 51 comments and forward