[wp-hackers] Re: WordPress Checking Own Pingbacks - Intended Behavior?

[Joost de Valk]

It's an easy way of showing your readers that there's a followup to that 
post, if they landed on that old post from a search engine for instance.

You can prevent it from happening with this plugin: 
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/no-self-ping/

~ Joost

Chris Poteet wrote:
> I have noticed this as well.  I would rather internal pingbacks not
> occur.  Why would I want to be notified that I linked to another
> article on my site?
>
> On Nov 15, 12:27 pm, Computer Guru <computerg... at neosmart.net> wrote:
>   
>> I just posted an article on my blog (WP SVN), and was surprised to find a
>> link from that article - to a previous article I had written  on the same
>> blog - flagged as spam by Akismet.
>>
>> IMHO, internal pingbacks should be added directly, without *any* spam
>> checking..
>>
>> I was wondering if there was any previous discussion on the topic before I
>> bugged it?
>>
>> -CG
>>
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