Bug #1067
closedInstall Disable Trackbacks
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Description
I've received an incredible amount of emails today asking me to moderate spam trackbacks -- probably about a hundred messages, if not more. Every few minutes, I'm getting new notifications, some from my own blogs, but also some from the Commons. This has to be annoying to our users; it's certainly annoying to me.
I think we should consider adding the plugin Disable Trackbacks and activating it network wide.
What do you think?
Updated by Boone Gorges almost 13 years ago
Trackbacks are an important feedback mechanism. I'm wary of forcing them to be turned off sitewide. Is Akismet supposed to catch these things?
Updated by Matt Gold almost 13 years ago
"Is Akismet supposed to catch these things?"
I believe so. Do we currently have Askimet installed and working on a network-wide basis?
Updated by Boone Gorges almost 13 years ago
Yes, A-kis-met is installed and activated network-wide. It appears to be catching spam on at least some blogs, so I assume that is working at least in some sense. Can you point me toward a blog where you're seeing the excessive trackbacks? When I check the Comments section for the main site, I don't see anything in the Spam or in the Trash.
Updated by Matt Gold almost 13 years ago
- Status changed from New to Rejected
Sorry -- my bad. The blog in question was on my own domain, but was titled "CUNY Academic Commons" (it was a site I made for a presentation). I mistook it for an actual site on the CAC.