Trackbacks are Off
Let me join Alex Tabarrok in turning off trackbacks:
Marginal Revolution: Trackbacks are Off: Due to an onslaught of spam, we have stopped accepting trackbacks. If Typepad improves their spam filters we will turn trackbacks back on but at present the ratio of spam to real trackbacks is over 100 to 1. We like trackbacks and regret the inconvenience. Posted by Alex Tabarrok
It is just not possible to police them. I don't have time with comments to keep the spam and the trolls down in any but the most half-a**** fashion. I can't deal with trackback spamming and trolling as well.
Apologies.
Once again, one of my own person maxims is proved true: Those who do not remember usenet are doomed to reimplement it -- poorly.
Posted by: Doctor Memory | March 18, 2006 at 07:42 PM
TypePad's trackback filters may not be up to snuff, but MT's filters have been working very well for me for quite some time. I wonder why the discrepancy in quality between the two?
Posted by: DavidNYC | March 18, 2006 at 10:19 PM
Rather depends on the volume of trackback spam you are subjected to. I get ~12,000 trackback attempts/month.
http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/archives/000676.html
Even with filters that are 99.9% effective, that's still a few spam trackbacks/week to clean up.
With ... ahem ... less effective filters, there would be a considerable mess to clean up.
Posted by: Jacques Distler | March 19, 2006 at 06:10 AM
Kevin Drum has an alternative. For each post he gives a link to Google's Blog Search for that post.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_03/008456.php
Posted by: Les Brunswick | March 20, 2006 at 04:52 PM