WordPress is designed with the capability of notifying you when someone has quoted from your blog. These notifications come mixed in with spam or comments.
My guess from reading comments is that most people, like me, delete these rather than having them show up in their comments.
Maybe they don’t want clutter, but there’s a good reason not to okay them.
There are a lot of sites out there scraping blog posts and creating exerpts based on the title and first sentence of your post, then printing it, hoping to get a link back from you.
It’s called “link bait”. While occasionally a real blog will quote you, most often is is a fake blog scraped from random posts trying to get people to click through their ads.
Today I followed one of those links and found it went to a wingnut secessionist anti-Constitutionalist site, you know the kind where they think that getting rid of free elections and installing an insane television entertainer as our fascist dictator would be the pinnacle of democracy.
Yeah, they scraped a bunch of blogs. Under their definition of “social justice” (something about forcible removal of property and redistribution to the undeserving masses), there were some comments by other left wing bloggers it had happened too. And then they closed the comments.
They linked to my “Glenn Beck is a bald-faced liar” post. How dumb is that?
