Yep, finally did it: I turned off trackback on this blog and The Brew Site. 99.9% of all traffic I received via trackback was spam, so in the end I decided it’s just not worth it. So, just over one year since I turned trackback on, it’s gone. It was an interesting experiment, though.
Tag: Trackback
Trackback spam
Woke up this morning to find 116 notices of trackback spam littering my inbox. Out of the blue, and I notice that a whole bunch of other weblogs got hit today, too. It appears some spammer finally wrote a script to exploit trackback. Ah, well. It was easy enough to fix; do a quick mod… Continue reading Trackback spam
More on trackbacks
Some more on trackbacks. To my mind, they are simply another form of comment, so that’s exactly how I’m treating them. You won’t see a special “Trackback” down there next to the “Comments” link. Instead, they’ll just be integrated with the comments in chronological order. I think I saw Sam Ruby doing this first, and… Continue reading More on trackbacks
Trackback is on
I’ve finally bitten the bullet and implemented Trackback here—well, half of it, anyway. My site should now be able to handle Trackback pings from other sites. I even implemented the RDF autodiscovery crap, but added a bonus: a new meta tag like so: <meta name=”trackback.ping” content=”Trackback URL for a particular entry”> So maybe I can… Continue reading Trackback is on
TrackBack?
Jeremy Zawodny had a post imagining a corporate worst-case scenario involving that ubiquitous Movable Type-developed technology, TrackBack. I’d been musing over TrackBack for awhile, and two things yesterday got me looking deeper into it: Zawodny’s blog entry, and the link to my site from Ensight that I detailed in my previous entry. I’ll admit, before… Continue reading TrackBack?