A farewell to Trackback
Comments: 9
I’m joining the exodus and turning off Trackbacks here. You probably know how it goes by now: a relentless swarm of obscene and stupid spam to the point where you just can’t face it. Talk about poisoning the well.
The most depressing thing about it is not the spam itself, it’s that people would stoop so low. That someone would think what little commercial gain they could possibly get outweighs the fact that they’re systematically poisoning a terrific concept really starts to erode whatever faith you have in humanity.
I didn’t have a whole lot left in the first place. Sorry, folks. Maybe Trackbacks will return one day, but that day seems about as likely as spam disappearing.
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Posted to MetaStuff • 2005.02.09 (Wed) • 21:50
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Posted by Adrian 2005.02.09, 22:27
What a disappointment it has become, what a shame.
Posted by eliot 2005.02.09, 23:37
You had faith in humanity? Whatever gave you that notion?
Posted by Chris Vincent 2005.02.09, 23:51
I figured Trackback would be next. You’re right, it’s a real shame.
One thing to note, however, is that it’s not a “little” commercial gain these guys are after. I read an interview recently with a spammer which reveals just how lucrative their little businesses can get over time. I forgot where the article is, however.
Of course, I don’t think that they’ll have the final say in the end. The web has always been about collaboration, and spam has always been around. But in the end, the good have won out. I think you’ll be able to re-enable Trackback before too long.
Posted by Kristen 2005.02.10, 00:15
I set my trackback default to “off” a while back, but had forgotten to close all the old posts. Finally did that this week, but I still haven’t gotten around to deleting all the crappy spam. What a bother.
Posted by foobario 2005.02.10, 09:41
‘faith in humanity’… I remember that. Dimly.
Look on the bright side - the people that keep the spam machine going by actually buying the damn stuff can’t be that smart to start with. Lack of blood to the brain (viagra! make peni$ fast!), protein loss from high-volume ejaculation, and disorientation from all of the prescriptionless vicodin should combine to cause a high attrition rate on its own, as well as making them sitting-ducks when they arrive in Nigeria to claim those millions of dollars, if they don’t get mugged for their Fauxlex watches before then.
Chin up, old chap… there’s probably a nice plague or thermonukular war on the horizon, set everything right again. Never lose hope :)
— foobario
Posted by Ben 2005.02.10, 14:01
Goodbye, little Trackbacks. May you reincarnate as some useful technology somewhere in a land far, far away, one preferably without spam.
Posted by Fro 2005.02.10, 14:42
I agree - Spam sucks!
Posted by Christian González 2005.02.11, 03:42
What happened to my commment?? I guess you saw it as an advertising one, sorry it looked that way, I am an avid reader of antipixel for a while now and never commented anything and in my first one you simply censor it?, damn bad thing, sorry fella, in any case if I comment again (I doubt it) I will do so with even more care.
Thanx for reading and as you have to personally approve all comments I guess this one again won’t get published but you will see it anyway.
Thanx again and sorry.
Christian
Posted by Janes 2005.12.17, 19:59
It goes alright and good to see you’ve romoved trackback.
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