Pingbacks polluting livejournal

[rhialto]

Recently I've started to notice that the irritating concept "pingback" has started to invade livejournal. Here you are, reading someone's post, and the replies to it, and then in the middle of the first sentence of one of the replies you notice that it isn't a reply at all, just a couple of sentence fragments from some other person who happened to read the same post and decided to link to it. Bah. Sometimes it even gets so bad that you have to search for the real replies in between all the junk. I don't like pingbacks.