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Spam is a pain in the arse for everyone, but weblog owners are doubly cursed, since they have to deal with comment spam (spaminomyces conluquii) trackback spam (spaminomyces vestigii) and referrer spam (spaminomyces commendaticius) as well as the common email or “garden” spam, (spaminomyces odiosus) that most people have to put up with.

Thanks to the wonderful Spam Karma plugin for Wordpress, comment and trackback spam haven’t been a problem for me for a couple of weeks, even with it set to “very lenient”. Now I’ve got Referrer Karma installed, with a couple of tiny tweaks to prevent irritating spam links showing up in my StatTraq referral logs. If you get asked to do slightly strange things like copy and submit a code after commenting, or click through an extra link to get here, that’s why. Sorry for any inconvenience.

The tweaks I’ve made to guard StatTraq from referral spam are detailed below, in case they’re useful to anyone:
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