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Trackback Spam

by Kevin

December 6th, 2007

Anyone know a good trackback spam blocker for wordpress? Spam Karma just isn’t cutting it for that right now, and I am bloody tired of cleaning it up. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Categories: Bloggin, General |

5 Comments

tgirsch December 6th, 2007
Failing all else, is there a way to set it up so that all trackbacks go into the moderation queue?
Paul Tomblin December 6th, 2007
I hear you. I made a post about the iPhone recently and was cleaning out trackback spams continually (as in “as soon as I cleared out the existing ones, there were new ones to clear out”) for hours afterwards.

I’m starting to wonder if there is any point to trackbacks any more.
Kevin December 6th, 2007
Tgirsch

not that I have been able to find. Spam Karma, for all its good, isn’t the clearest tool.

Paul

Same thing here. I am this close to just turning trackbakcs off, but I like the conversational nature of trackbacks.
SayUncle December 6th, 2007
I just shut mine off. There’s info on how to do that at this link:

http://www.saysuncle.com/archives/2007/11/27/a_note/

Follow the links for the query to shut it off on old posts.

Those darn presidential link farms got the better of me.
jonathan hickman December 6th, 2007
I looked everywhere for a solution and settled on turning them off. There is a WP plugin for putting all trackbacks in moderation, but it didn’t work for me. You can also try antileech, to stop content theft, but it didn’t work for me, either.

I think trackbacks are ultimately a Good Thing, but for now they’re worse than useless.