I've been wondering why my Google Buzz wasn't linking up with Superuser and Serverfault. I got a pretty good suggestion at [webapps.stackoverflow.com](https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/1911/how-do-i-get-google-buzz-to-see-my-other-stack-overflow-accounts). In short the theory is the `"rel~=nofollow"` throws it off. I'm wondering if it is appropriate to require a reputation of 2000 before the *nofollow* tag is dropped from the profile? 

Google could certainly fix this on their end, but it seems as a copied profile should just carry over the dofollow link so Google makes the XFN for Buzz. Is it possible to remove this instance of "nofollow" or to find a different way to establish non-spammer status other than reputation? I presume you're doing this to prevent spam, rather than as an incentive to get 2000 reputation points.

I plan on using the other sites in the trilogy but I doubt I'll make 2000 reputation anytime soon on them.

I think this is the message that StackExchange is trying to send:

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