Auto Trackback
??Phil?? discusses the death of TrackBack caused by AutoDiscovery
bq. Can TrackBack be saved, while still being more transparent than the original? Sure. All it takes is one step of human intervention before the pings are sent, along with some awareness of what should and shouldn’t be pinged. Either another button alongside Preview and Save, to Discover, or another screen during the entry saving process, listing the autodiscovered URLs along with checkboxes to actually send pings, would do just fine. That, along with enough people deleting pings that don’t actually lead to something more, could possibly return TrackBack pings to being something for readers, rather than something for weblog authors. I doubt it will happen, but it could.
Trouble is, as soon it is made easy to do a Trackback, who is not going to trackback a link? As it is now. only a few people, Phil included, will do it _properly_, which won’t make a trackback worth more to visit.
I have a motto, “If in doubt, leave Trackback out”.