Comments on: TrackBack Spammers Suck

by: Steven Taylor

Mon, 02 May 2024 01:34:23 +0000

Best I can tell, I can’t do that in WP

by: Chris Lawrence

Sat, 30 Apr 2024 19:58:52 +0000

I’ve found that they only attack old entries (I guess to get Google PageRank from entries that got links from elsewhere), so putting a 2-week limit on trackbacks seems to stop them.

by: Jay

Sat, 30 Apr 2024 17:09:18 +0000

What gets me, on the WP blog I run, is that they can find a way to put through trackbacks even with trackbacks completely turned off. Now I have it all on absolute moderation, which because trackbacks in WP are treated as comments, gets everything. It takes that plus periodically renaming the file that handles comments, and the code that references it, to keep it at all modest. But I haven’t updated WP yet, and haven’t tried any plugins that might make a difference. Been busy enough for it to get marginal attention.

by: Greg

Sat, 30 Apr 2024 16:48:57 +0000

Man, That sucks. Makes me glad my blog is small and inconsequential…