Comments on: Bye Bye Trackbacks

By: Alessandro Zamboni

Alessandro Zamboni — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:05:13 +0000

Hi and thanks for this post.
Also I in two of my blogs, I decided to remove Trackbacks, just because I don’t like to see them in my comment’s list.

So I have a clear list of comments by my own visitors.

Thanks and Goodbye,
Alessandro Zamboni

By: Chip Bennett

Chip Bennett — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:42:13 +0000

I completely disagree with the opinion that pingbacks are entirely useless and that they only clutter a comments section.

Only very minor tweaks to comments.php are required to separate pingbacks from comments, and to display pingbacks in a more user-friendly manner (such as a OL or UL that displays the blog name/post title, rather than contextual text inside of ellipses).

Pingbacks are an important part of the inter-connectivity of the blogosphere, as a means of linking to similar content. The idea of disabling them is currently fashionable, but it is also short-sighted.

Further, “spambacks” can be prevented at a near-perfect rate using a simple plugin.

By: Robert Nelson

Robert Nelson — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:13:46 +0000

It’s a shame that now even trackbacks are part of a spammers arsenal, but totally understand that you have better things to then to delete “spambacks”(my spur of the moment word)

By: Peter Kahoun

Peter Kahoun — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:49:42 +0000

Totally agree. And it was so neat idea… in theory!

By: Lazy

Lazy — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:22:27 +0000

i see / understand your post about trackbacks and your decision, but it`s a pitty that it comes so far with trackbacks.. sry for my bad english ;)

By: zoupic

zoupic — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:55:20 +0000

FRIST POST!
and it’s a real comment. I will see with the time if fame, luxury cars, chicks and trackback come to me by millions, then I might disable it as well..