AutoTrackBack is evil
Posted on June 08, 2003 @ 15:26 in MovableType
I agree with Phil that the autodiscovery function of TrackBack is evil. It is not always topical to ping every TrackBack enabled URL that your post links to. You should only ping other posts if you feel that your own post contributes something to the original post.
The autodiscovery function itself is actually pretty useful, because it helps you find the TrackBack URLs, so you won't have to go copy and paste between a number of sites. The problem however is that MT automatically pings these sites and you don't have any control over the pinging process.
What MT actually should do, is find the TrackBack URLs for you, and then, before pinging them, present the user with a list of these URLs and offer the user the choice of unticking the URLs that don't make any sense to ping.
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Comments and trackbacks have been closed on this site. My apologies.
Since MT-Blacklist inexplicably stopped working I had no other recourse than close comments and trackbacks to stop the spam. I've been meaning to correct this for quite a while, but life got in the way... in a good way I should add.