Pingbacks and Trackbacks

Hi

I have a lot of pings on my wordpress account. And i mean like thousands.
I just wanted to check that enabling the deletion of these won’t mess up any of the comments databases or anything else within wordpress.

Also do you recommend deleting pingbacks and trackbacks, or is there an alternate way to stop so many spam ones being set up?

Thanks

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