Comments on: Social Media Frustrations: Trackbacks, Comment Spam and Splogs

By: S.P. Gass

S.P. Gass — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:49:31 +0000

I’m still new to blogging and the other commenter got me thinking about filters. I might try activating the askimet plugin in WordPress and turning trackbacks back on.

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:34:30 +0000

Joe: Of course, I’m totally biased so you might want to do your own research, but our users tell us that accuracy is superior to Akismet’s. They also love our nifty way of displaying the quarantine.

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By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:46:14 +0000

Carl,
I agree, the trackback feature is pretty cool, but is inherently vulnerable to a lot of abuse from spammers. I have a question, compared to Akismet, is Defensio more effective, and is it easy to setup for Wordpress?

S.P. Gass,
Sorry to hear that you disabled trackbacks. To me, at that point, the spammers have won. I’d love to think of a more permanent solution to address the problem at hand. Any ideas?

Thanks both of you for commenting.

~Joe

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:59:18 +0000

I find trackbacks very interesting still. It allows me and my readers to know who links back to a given article. It’s true that the trackback implementation as it is right now is broken and very prone to spam, but a good spam filter can do the trick quite well.

By: S.P. Gass

S.P. Gass — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:14:42 +0000

I hear you, Joe. Just this week, I turned off trackbacks on my blog because it was pretty much always spam.