Comments on: Bye-bye, trackbacks

By: Dwight Silverman

Dwight Silverman — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:33:07 +0000

Ditto here. We turned off trackbacks at chron.com in 2006. It was a sad moment; I love em when they work. But with over 200 blogs, the trackback spam was bogging us down, bigtime. At one point, we were getting 64,000 trackback pings a minute from spambots. Ugh.

By: Neil T.

Neil T. — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:39:56 +0000

Same here – turned Trackback off a couple of years ago because I was getting about 1 good trackback per month and 100s of spam trackbacks every day. It’s a nice idea but nothing has been done to reduce the spam problem – I was part of a working group to improve the protocol but no-one could agree about how to go forward and the project died.

By: The How-To Geek

The How-To Geek — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:34:25 +0000

I did the same thing about 1.5 years ago… just way too much work involved.

By: Kip

Kip — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:04:00 +0000

We did the same thing a few months ago, Ed. A shame that we don’t have trackbacks to legitimate sources, but they were far outnumbered by the spam. Too bad