Trackback Spam
I’m going to have to throttle somebody.
Yes, oh yes. I have entered the mainstream for sure. Like many others, I have been hit by trackback spam. All of my spam has been commercial, unlike UrlGreyHot, who on the 17th got spammed by a spammer trying to “prove a point” about how “stupid” it is to allow trackback pings.
Well, forgive me for (a) wanting to know when somebody links to me, and (b) wanting to provide them with a link back to their blogs.
I hate spammers. Unfortunately, MT 3.0 doesn’t allow me to change the TrackBack status on multiple entries at once – otherwise it’d all be closed right now. As it is, I have 571 (make that 572) entries. Does anybody out there know how to close trackbacks on an MT 3.0 blog across the board?
July 29th, 2004 at 10:09 am
I’ve pretty much given up on looking at my website stats and referrers, since they’re almost all spam and porn. Of course, I can’t tell that just by looking at the link, since they’re all redirects, but whois searches invariably show they’re owned by the same porn merchant. I made the mistake of clicking one of them, back when there were maybe one or two every other week, when I didn’t know it was porn, and after that my referrers were flooded to the point of being all but useless to me.