Yeah, quoted exerpts are a normal part of the pingback protocol, but they've got some very buggy code, it's not supposed to do anything with locked posts, at all, and I've not seen evidence that it is pinging from locked posts.

I've seen evidence that it's pinging from posts that are public and edited to be locked, but that's a completely different thing, if you ever post something publcly, it's in the wild, aggregators and dodgy search engines pick it up, I know I've been linked to on posts that were later locked, they showed up in my link tracking Google Alerts.

But yeah, sucky testing, I really don't get why the release such major new features without much user testing. But then, I switched to DW a year ago.

Annoyingly, I like the actual idea behind the feature, including the comment posting, but not from locke dentries, that's just stupid.