What happens when we delete all the outgoing links from a forum at once?

[vtmoz]

Hi all,

We have our forum and is filled with spammy content and external nofollow links. I am just wondering if we can make all these links as plain text from hyperlinks (if we can); it's technically deleting all the external links. Will this impact negatively or positively anyhow as per Google? Please share your ideas.

Thanks

[EGOL]

I believe that if these links are "nofollow" that changing them will have no direct impact on your status with Google or your rankings.

Deleting them will make forum members who don't understand "nofollow" really angry with you.

They might also decide not to spam your site, which will be good for your forum in many ways.    You might also lose some nonspammers who don't understand and leave.

Good luck.