I mean pages like:

contact
about
.
.
etc.

I am using your robots plugin but did not find any option to nofollow pages links.

Patterns of over-optimization might be penalized sooner or later as well...

I'm still not 100% on it though... Nofollowing gives a link no "juice", sure. But nofollowing one link doesn't automatically give another more juice, although of course that is what we're all implying. It's still a smelly thing, just like nofollow itself :(

I did read that SEOmoz article (keeping up on blogs I can do, even when busy giving presentations ;)), I guess I interpreted it wrong when I read it the first time. Although I'd still not advice clients to do it because it doesn't feel right at all. I'll try it on my blog and see what happens.

Does anyone know of a case where someone actualy measured the effect? (in traffic/rankings, not in visible pagerank) The my "feeling" would probably change as well.

@Ruben: read that stuff Dave just linked... And dude, if you´re diving into SEO, giving presentations on it and stuff like that ( ;) ), read up on it :P

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/questions-answers-with-googles-spam-guru was one of the first posts

You tell Google you have a ton of links on a page, but you don't trust half of them. Of those, some are in your own domain (in Andy's case > what do you think about that?), so you don't trust yourself.

You nofollow a link to Google's help page about IMAP support. This means your article is less worth to me, since you just link to something you don't trust. What does this tell me about you and your article?

You nofollow the links to the guys you say you trust for their judgment on nofollow, what does that mean?

I think this is taking SEO a step too far in the math-department. From an algo point of view, maybe it turns out to work. But it doesn't make sense from a huma point of view, so in the end I doubt this is a good technique.

I must say it feels a bit like how people thought you could make Google crawl your site faster with Webmaster Central. Of course, all you can do is make some parts slower, it's all relative.

I'd love to see some case study to back up. Also, what are the arguments your not-to-be-trusted-expert-friends use?

PS: I'm not an SEO, although I do know a bit about it. I do SEO by thinking of humans and webstandards, not by thinking of algo's.

It sounds to me like you are abusing nofollow by using it to enforce your editorial opinion on others. You're entitled to do this, but I don't think your use is in line with the spirit of why this functionality was introduced.