How do I stop pinging myself?
A question for lazy web
Just a quick note to those who subscribe to my RSS comments…for some reason everytime I put a link in a post that refers to an old post it pings me and ends up in the comments of the new post…now I don’t really want trackbacks/citation links from myself.
So I apologise for the trash your getting from this feed.
I don’t know how to prevent this from happenning…no-one is yet to respond to my topic in the forums from my bloghost.
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I get that too, but it’s actually kinda helpful for following threads through a blog - put yourself in the shoes of someone who stumbled across a blog post via Google - they’d have access to related posts by following the trackbacks through your weblog.
There is a better solution for that case (the “related posts” plugin), but the trackback trail works fine.
If it bothers you having self-referential trackbacks, I think the only way to prevent them is by killing trackbacks altogether (although I could be wrong).
Comment by D'Arcy Norman — May 12, 2005 @ 8:39 pm