For the big pile of stuff: How about a wikipedia-style "Mefi posts that link to this post" box on the side of each thread (that has been linked back to)? So when someone links back to a post, that old post now links forward to the new thread. Especially useful if you search and find an older thread, and would like also to read the subsequent threads which say "previously discussed on MetaFilter..." Ideally, it would pick up on comments as well as posts that link to a specific thread (not to a specific comment in the thread, though).
posted by Eideteker on Jul 3, 2006 - 16 comments

Would it be possible to get trackbacks turned back on at some point? Also, a small bug: existing trackbacks have disappeared. I'm not sure whether that happened when trackbacks were initially disabled or when the comment-closing feature was added, but they're all gone.
posted by monju_bosatsu on Apr 3, 2005 - 12 comments

Any chance of getting trackbacks turned back on, Matt? I really liked the way I could follow them out into the bloggy cloud of commentary, which often included longer essays and pictures of kittens and stuff.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken on Dec 2, 2004 - 13 comments

FYI: Trackback has been disabled from the site until I get some time next week to put some fixes in to block certain people from tweaking with it.
posted by mathowie on Mar 17, 2004 - 8 comments

Is it possible to disallow embedded media in trackbacks? Say for instance the song that automatically starts playing when you open this thread.
posted by willnot on Mar 17, 2004 - 3 comments

Trackback etiquitte- is it considered bad taste to make a trackback on your personal blog to an FPP you posted? I was going to TB to the Nader thread I made earlier on my site but I'm not sure if this would be considered TB spamming and/or self-linking.
posted by XQUZYPHYR on Feb 22, 2004 - 12 comments

Is there a reason every thread since this one has a trackback about the Dalai Lama and Bush?
posted by GhostintheMachine on Feb 10, 2004 - 7 comments

Still getting duplicate Trackbacks.
posted by Space Coyote on Jul 19, 2003 - 6 comments

How about this: I run a newsbot (which shall remain unlinked) that parses MeFi regularly, looking for news articles. I am wondering: would it be kosher with y'all (Matt most importantly) if the bot pinged back MeFi with added information about any links that it found (using the existing trackback infrastructure)? Useful value-add or trackback spam? [more inside]
posted by costas on May 21, 2003 - 10 comments

is there a way to undo a trackback? does there need to be one?
posted by complex on Apr 2, 2003 - 4 comments

Just noticed the new "tb" feature trailing some but not all of the FPPs. Can someone point me to any documentation on what's up with dat?
posted by BentPenguin on Jul 23, 2002 - 4 comments