How to reduce trackback spam in COREBlog2
from the well-that-didn't-take-long dept
Shortly after I got this blog going, I thought it would be a good idea to ping a few servers (Technorati, weblogs.com, etc) in hopes of building some readership. Big mistake - just a few hours later, the spam started coming in.
I really didn't want to disable trackbacks entirely, so I hit up Google for an answer. I found one here at this post on the COREBlog mailing list, which basically involves putting a simple keyword check in CB2's "tbping" script. That's now implemented here - it won't stop a reasonably intelligent human, but it should be enough to weed out the bots for now.
CB2's trackbacks are actual content objects in Plone, so it really shouldn't be too hard to whip up a moderation system using a custom workflow, similar to what Dan Martin is doing with comments - but I'll save that for another day.
