At one point in time, I had planned on implementing trackbacks. I particularly liked the kind that rewarded linkers with a trackback link directly below the post. Lately though I've been getting an increasing amount of comment spam. Porn site owners and pill pushers have been cutting and pasting tons of links into comments, in a vain attempt to increase their hit count. Since all comments are emailed directly to me, they are usually deleted within a few hours, and their IP address is banned. While I have yet to delete a comment or ban someone based on their political views, I refuse to allow my site to be a conduit for spam.

I realize that there is a plugin out there that helps eliminate comment spam, but right now it requires more work than it saves. I would have to upgrade Movable Type prior to installing the plugin, and right now I just don't want to do that. Whereby some people upgrade just to upgrade, I only upgrade to get more-better features. If comment spam starts to get relentless like email spam, perhaps I'll take the plunge. Until then, I'll stick to the delete/ban method.

By the way, if your IP is banned by mistake (like a spammer spoofed it or something), just shoot me an email via the feedback form, and I'll unblock it. Since most banned IP's originate from the Eastern block I doubt that will be the case for anyone.