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I did the same about a month ago. I was receiving hundreds of trackbacks per day from spammers (I think that it was only one spammer, but a very persistent one). I'm sure that switching to another platform might give a temporary advantage (currently use Drupal), but I went the easy route instead and just turned it off. Now that Dave has done it, I feel less guilty.
Hmmm, I'm in the process of cleaning up my comments and trackbacks on way.nu (served by WordPress, which is somewhat better at dealing with comment spam that MoveableType) and doing it as a multipart tutorial:
http://way.nu/archives/2005/06/killing-comment-spam/
BUT it is an onerous process and the average blogger doesn't have the time and talent to fix this stuff, allowing the blogosphere be be littered with garbage.
BUT turning off trackbacks isn't the solution - without cross-conversational linking, you aren't bloggging. Without comments, pingback and trackback all cross-conversational links must be manually created, which puts us back into email link-whoring how 1990s.
Bloggging tool vendors have not done a good job of getting their heads together and coming up with a solution that is open and works for everyone. Typekey was a start, but six apart never really moved it forward or made it easy to use.
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1. Harold Jarche on June 5, 2005 08:37 PM writes...
I did the same about a month ago. I was receiving hundreds of trackbacks per day from spammers (I think that it was only one spammer, but a very persistent one). I'm sure that switching to another platform might give a temporary advantage (currently use Drupal), but I went the easy route instead and just turned it off. Now that Dave has done it, I feel less guilty.
Permalink to Comment2. Jonathan Peterson on June 6, 2005 11:16 AM writes...
Hmmm, I'm in the process of cleaning up my comments and trackbacks on way.nu (served by WordPress, which is somewhat better at dealing with comment spam that MoveableType) and doing it as a multipart tutorial:
http://way.nu/archives/2005/06/killing-comment-spam/
BUT it is an onerous process and the average blogger doesn't have the time and talent to fix this stuff, allowing the blogosphere be be littered with garbage.
BUT turning off trackbacks isn't the solution - without cross-conversational linking, you aren't bloggging. Without comments, pingback and trackback all cross-conversational links must be manually created, which puts us back into email link-whoring how 1990s.
Bloggging tool vendors have not done a good job of getting their heads together and coming up with a solution that is open and works for everyone. Typekey was a start, but six apart never really moved it forward or made it easy to use.
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