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Originally Posted by Ferus
People can stick to nofollow or nothing at all if they want.. not my problem 
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well if someone is using nofollow means for me that he know, that this link will not effect his site at all - not positive and not negative and there is no change in that.
ugc and sponsored are just 2 new and additional attributes and they make more sense if they are used with a dofollow link and in rare cases in combination with a nofollow.
so yes - if you have a dofollow link on your page with NO attribute and you link it either internal or external to user generated content, it make MUCH sense to use ugc
it also makes much sense to use it on a sponsored link if you want that google understand this link as part of your page.
i.e if one runs a price comparison portal all his outgoing links do have usually affiliate parameters. so this is in fact a sponsored link. but this represents not only your business model - this is also the value a user finds on your page.
to add here a "sponsored" and keep the link dofollow makes a lot of sense because it EXPLAINS the affiliate id and dynamic parameters that are on this link.