http://blog.globalreset.org/articles/2006/04/04/trackback-spam en-us 40 A Mac OS X Switcher, TiVo Addict, and Objectivist <p>Ever since my last post, where I made mention of trackback spam, I have been targetted by &#8220;trackback spammers&#8221;. I was getting about 10-20 trackbacks a day since posting it. I just went through and disabled trackbacks on all my posts (UPDATE contents SET contents.allow_pings=&#8217;0&#8217; WHERE type=&#8217;Article&#8217;).</p> <p>It looks like, though I can&#8217;t be certain, they were using Ruby to post the trackbacks. I say that only because I saw some early ones that had descriptions like &#8220;Testing from Ruby&#8221;. I guess a rubyist might have wanted to make a point to me about how you can&#8217;t identify the source of trackback spam, so maybe my earlier complaint was misdirected. It&#8217;s probably lucky for me that Ruby doesn&#8217;t scale well, or else I could have had hundreds of thousands of trackback spam posts from that fella!</p> <p>Trackbacks in general are probably just adding noise to the web. If good indexers like Google and Technorati can tell me when one blog links to another blog, why do I need to advertise who&#8217;s linking on the particular post page? I guess I&#8217;ll just leave it disabled until I can think of some use for it. Perhaps replace the trackback link with a direct link to the Technorati cosmos for a particular page (not that my cosmos on Technorati is any less barren than actual space).</p> Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:21:00 -0700 urn:uuid:a73d45c2-9221-4e4a-9ac6-e776f697ad35 Scott Hughes http://blog.globalreset.org/articles/2006/04/04/trackback-spam Aggravation trackback spam