WordPress and Trackback spam
Probably fair to say that Akismet has the comment spam situation under control now - though whether we’re all comfortable with such a close relationship with Automattic is an open question…
The annoyance these days is trackback spam - if you are moderating it, it’s completely pointless and gives no benefit to the spammer. Loads of hits, very little bandwidth wasted, just annoying in itself.
Basically the only option is to turn off pingbacks and trackbacks, globally or per individual post. There are some plugins around that greatly assist the whole business, eg. wp-spamfree is the one I’ve been using since it came out.
What trackback spam does do is bump up the visitor stats if you’re thinking of impressing your pals…
