What are comments and trackbacks and how can I control them in my blog?
A comment is a reply or feedback that a reader can leave in response to an entry on your Quick Blogcast site. When reading your blogcast site, readers click the Comment button next to an entry to leave a reply or feedback for that entry. You can then write a comment in response to a readers comment, therefore creating a dialog between you and your readers.
NOTE: Comments are limited to 3000 characters.
A trackback is a link from an entry in another blog or Web site to an entry in your blog. When reading your blogcast site, readers can create a trackback (or link) to the individual entry on your site from their blog or Web site. The trackback sends a ping from the originating site to your blog, to notify it that a link was created.
If you choose to, you can disallow comments and trackbacks on your site. Otherwise, readers can leave comments and create trackbacks to entries on your site.
If you opt to allow comments and trackbacks to your blog, the Manage Comments page lists all of the comments for each entry in your blog and the Manage Trackbacks page lists all of the trackbacks for all entries in your blog.
From the Manage Comments page you can reply to, view, approve, or delete comments, ban IP addresses, or mark comments as SPAM. From the Manage Trackbacks page you can view, approve, edit, or delete trackbacks, ban IP addresses, or mark trackbacks as SPAM. Banning an IP address prevents people who are accessing your blog from that IP address from writing comments or creating trackbacks, respectively.
You can control whether new comments and trackbacks are automatically published to your blog or require your approval first. If you set Quick Blogcast to require your approval before publishing comments and trackbacks, new comments or trackbacks made by others have a status of Pending Approval. You can also mark certain comments as SPAM. Comments or trackbacks that you create have a status of Draft until you publish them.