http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/taxonomy/term/794/0 en http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/node/603 <p>Dear <a href="http://planet.drupal.org/" rel="nofollow">Drupal developers</a> :)</p> <p>Over at <a href="http://planet.grep.be" rel="nofollow">planet.grep.be</a> we had some fuzz<br /> about comments, trackbacks and mostly the spam related with having trackbacks enabled.</p> <p>So the message is clear .. we need to do something about the trackback module so it fits in better with all the great antispam tools are around.<br /> I`m currently not using any captchas on my blog but my spam is down to 1 or to messages a week. My Trackbacks however are still pretty problematic , but they are the only place I need to focus on periodically.</p> <p>Fairly well hidden in a <a href="http://www.stroobant.be/trackback-spam#comment-301" rel="nofollow">comment on Luc</a> 's blog someone points out the idea of having a list of people you trust that are allowed to send trackbacks, which sounds to me like a pretty good idea.</p> <p>So if you are out there , feeling bored not knowing what code to work on .. :)</p> http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/node/603#comments comments drupal spam trackbacks Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:25:18 +0000 Kris Buytaert 603 at http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/node/598 <p>Dear <a href="http://dag.wieers.com/blog/content/commenting-on-blogarticles" rel="nofollow">Dag</a></p> <p>I`m with <a href="http://bbbart.internationalgeneration.be/blog/archives/2008/02/index.html#e2008-02-06T01_47_32.txt" rel="nofollow">Bart</a> on this topic.</p> <p>It's hard enough to keep up with blogs let alone with comments on the comments you made on those blogs. And as people in your comments noted .. Trackbacks should solve this problem<br /> I actually send a trackback to <a href="http://leo.unstable.be/wordpress/?p=57" rel="nofollow">Leo</a> which made my <cite>comment</cite> show up in his comments.</p> <p>Commenting to it on my own blog and trackbacking to the original post actually gives you the benefit of not having to authenticate / register on a gazillion blogs. it gives you better visibility on the comments people make on your comment (If they are nice they include 2 trackbacks), since you don't need to track it on other blogs.</p> <p>Lots of blogging tools have features to detect trackback urls from original posts that you point to , Drupal can even do that from a cronjob if you want to.<br /> It's however the other side that also needs to have trackbacking allowed.</p> <p>If the trackback system doesn't work , or if you prefer not to enable it due to the shitload of spam you get on it there's always Technorati telling you that people have been pointing back to you.</p> <p>Might I suggest you take a look at the <a href="http://drupal.org/project/trackback" rel="nofollow">Drupal Trackback module </a> , if you enable it this post on my blog should show up a s a comment to your blog entry and we'll all be happy :) And Technorati will update your Authority</p> http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/node/598#comments blogs comments drupal trackbacks Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:34:03 +0000 Kris Buytaert 598 at http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog