On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Tim Hall wrote:

And I guess they also draw in commentors that won't necessarily read or post to GAMERS, so it cuts both ways.

True, but that's not of consequence to GAMERS. :} Unless, of course, we pull those back in somehow.

(1) Not necessarily just GAMERS - In my case I've got a specific subcategory for the Kalyr RPG playtest, which could be fed into that group rather than GAMERS.

Yes, basically any discussion group. It *could* be done with roleplaying groups, but that might be... odd.

But I know a lot of other sites don't even if the software supports them; Pingbacks have been badly abused by comment spammers in the past, to the extent that a lot of Moveable Type users have disabled pingbacks because it wasn't worth the hassle.

Yeah, that's the big thing: either direction, you're having to extend trust to a larger circle, which leads to more vulnerability.