My first question to the blogerati (ugh, I wish I could have avoided that neologism) would be whether I should enable trackbacks on my blog postings. I decided for now to disable them because (a) as a blog reader, I find them annoying, and almost never useful; and (b) I vaguely recall something about a security issue with them. (I guess, specifically, spammers can use them as a way to inject comment spam-like content on my pages.)
Enlighten me! Surprise me! Or at least, let me know you read this and didn't have an opinion ...
Yes, they are. Blogging is about conversations, or at least it is supposed to be. Trackbacks help to follow this flow, that's it.
About spammers I don't see them using, while I see lots of spam as direct comments.
My two cents.
PS the blue coloured words let me think it was an URI..
Posted by: Roberto Galoppini | January 15, 2008 at 10:05 AM
Thanks for the comment.
I'm really divided. Here's what I think is a typical example -- yes they are there but they are not useful at all (and one of them might be some sort of disingenuous spam attempt): http://tinyurl.com/2kqgs7 ... if they could be less useless (say, if I could moderate them like I can moderate comments) I would not hesitate to enable them, but as it is, I think they are unattractive and potentially a security risk.
Posted by: era | January 15, 2008 at 02:05 PM
Oh, and sorry for the blue text, it was intended as a stupid joke. (Hint: hover the cursor on it.)
Posted by: era | January 15, 2008 at 02:15 PM
Turns out I can indeed moderate them: http://tinyurl.com/247whl
So I have now enabled trackbacks. Thanks again for the feedback.
Posted by: era | January 19, 2008 at 10:48 PM