Reverse-pingbacks for comments

[geekdreams]

Currently, when you submit a comment on a random blog, the only way of tracking that comment or referring back to it later is to a.) bookmark the comments page, or b.) subscribe to the comments feed (if available).

What I'd like to see is an extension of the Pingback spec, or possibly some new feature (talkbacks? backtalk?), that pings my homepage when I submit a comment on someone else's blog. This would allow me to include a sidebar on my site containing recent comments from all over the web, and would generally help me track conversations directly in Wordpress.

Spam/abuse is an issue, but that's true of pingbacks, trackbacks, and comments as well. Also, the system would only be useful if a majority of Wordpress (and other blogging systems that would presumably follow suit) installations had this feature on by default, so a plugin is not the answer.

Thanks in advance for your consideration and comments.

[zamoose]

No need to extend Pingback - CoComment already does what you're talking about:
​http://cocomment.com/

[markjaquith]

CoComment (while cool), is a closed system. I like the idea of extending (or using) Pingback.

Just have WordPress pingback all URLs submitted in regular comments. WordPress could be set up to accept pingbacks to the front page, and somehow figure out that it is a comment (might have to extend pingback here, somehow).

[technosailor]

Sounds like a good way to leverage spam/XSS attacks, to be quite frank.

Though conceptually, good idea.

[SiGe]

When it should be included, it should check the mailadress...
When there's no User using that adress, it's spam.
In my case I need to know, which comment belongs to which user.

Both things can be handled via checking the email

[pishmishy]

I'm afraid that this doesn't appear to be a feature that many people are interested in. If you are still interested, please write it as a plugin and promote it's adoption.

It does sound like it could be interesting I think we're going to have to show that there's a demand before someone is going to be motivated to include this as a feature.