Comments on: Trackback http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1172 We of course all understand it, being intellectuals. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:47:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: D http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1172&cpage=1#comment-3366 Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:56:12 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1172#comment-3366 Seemed an ego thing to me. I’ve never used them and when I got my first Trackback spam I immediately switched it all off. I don’t think I’ve ever had a design that incorporated the feature…

]]> By: Horst http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1172&cpage=1#comment-3365 Tue, 08 Mar 2005 19:22:20 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1172#comment-3365 Yes. Here’s a summary:
http://www.aardvark.at/blog/archives/2004/09/000710.html

Tricks to get rid of trackback spams:

1. Rename the file mt-trackback.cgi into something else and change the according pointer in mt.cfg

2. Upgrade to MT 2.661

3. Install MT-Blacklist

It is possible to get the situation under control that way.

]]> By: Big Time Patriot http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1172&cpage=1#comment-3364 Tue, 08 Mar 2005 11:50:15 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1172#comment-3364 I never did figure out what trackbacks did either. I sure hate that comment spam, I wrote my own blog code (I felt like I had to since I am a web developer) and I had to weed out a lot of likely words to cut it out.

]]> By: jadedju http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1172&cpage=1#comment-3363 Tue, 08 Mar 2005 11:35:08 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1172#comment-3363 I liked the idea of them, but have mostly failed to see any real benefit. I can think of once–in the middle of a webblogscandal (Plain Layne, I think) where I liked Trackbacks because I could better see what everyone was saying about a blogger I’d liked who apparently had never existed.

Anyway, it seems as though many people have ceased using them, either out of boredom, disinterest, or the spam. No loss, that I can tell.

]]> By: Karan http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1172&cpage=1#comment-3362 Tue, 08 Mar 2005 06:48:44 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1172#comment-3362 I don’t really understand them but then, I’ve made very little effort in figuring them out. I have them installed but only because they are built into the Expression Engine software. I’ve only had one trackback, ever. Yahoo.

]]> By: Brian http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1172&cpage=1#comment-3361 Tue, 08 Mar 2005 03:20:13 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1172#comment-3361 From the outset I could not see any particular value to trackbacks, and largely I think that they failed on their own merit, even before they turned into the tool of spamdemons. I have never used them. We are well rid of them.

]]> By: TH http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1172&cpage=1#comment-3360 Tue, 08 Mar 2005 02:07:09 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1172#comment-3360 I like them. I like to be able to leave trackbacks, especially as thex do continue the discussion. But they’re not essential.

]]> By: eeksypeeksy http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=1172&cpage=1#comment-3359 Tue, 08 Mar 2005 01:39:11 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=1172#comment-3359 I just had to go read what a trackback is. To me, if it doesn’t exist in Blogger (Blogger = free, me = cheap), it doesn’t exist. Or maybe it does exist in Blogger but it never sounded very useful.

Anyway, now that you mention this Mena person, maybe I can reveal my theory: Ben and Mena are secretly siblings, which is why Barak Berkowitz is making a face here:
http://www.sixapart.com/about/management

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