Trackbacks/pings are a good idea, but have their problems. (See Jeremy Zawodny's Trackback is dead)
I've been getting LOTS of trackbacks, and decided to remove the ability to leave trackbacks. If you run typo and wish to remove them too, just open up the trusty script/console and fire a single command:
% ruby script/console
Article.find_all.each { |a| a.allow_pings = 0; a.save }
Now trackbacks are disabled on all comments.
Unfortunately when I was removing the many hundreds of trackback spam from my site, I accidently deleted all the real trackbacks with another command that will not be listed here!
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