After two weekends of a fun deluge of weekend spam (limited only by the fact that I was only allowing up to three trackbacks per hour), I’m reverting to the super-secret-special code trackback method. Otherwise I’m afraid that this site will be drowning in spam.

While I am, on the main, thrilled with ExpressionEngine, I do wish that it handled trackbacks better than it does. Using the super-secret-special code, it’s pretty rare for trackbacks to come through. Unfortunately, I don’t have the time or energy to deal with hunting down and deleting so many individual instances of trackback spam.

So, here’s the trackback policy for ResurrectionSong.

1. Trackbacks that link to a site or a post that do not actually reference the post on ResurrectionSong will be deleted.
2. If you have linked to a story and the trackback doesn’t show up here, please send an email to zombyboy -at- resurrectionsong -dot- com. I will generally try to add a link back to your piece, although if you send the email between Friday afternoon and Sunday morning, I might be less than responsive. Apologies, but I like having a day and a half off each week.
3. Just linking to the permalink URL will not result in a trackback. You have to ping the trackback URL for the trackback to show up. It will look something like this:
   

   http://www.resurrectionsong.com/index.php/trackback/246/hRfSUvYD/

   Where 246 is the post number and the 8 letters at the end are a random string that can only be used once in a trackback on that post.

Later today or tomorrow, I’ll be linking this policy post to the site so that it will always be available and I’ll be adding the trackback URL to the permalink page on the site. I apologize for the change, but in the never-ending war on spam, this is the best possible solution for the site.

Update: See what I mean? It didn’t work for Bryan. Stoopid decoder ring…