User Generated Content - controlling Comment Spam on your website
In March 2020 Google started to look for hyperlinks that had been designated rel="ugc"
Comment Spam
UGC is often interpreted as Spam
What Google say:
Previous Experience
I have written extensively on "Comment Spam" in the past and have witnessed it when I was running a Wordpress blog in Canada. Since that time I have also encountered the same level of spam being submitted to the Village Hall Wordpress website