Accidentally marked biggest referrers as spam

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  jobcenteraktivistin · Member · Jun 3, 2016 at 11:58 pm

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  I must have spamblocked Facebook and Twitter accidentally, and probably even more referrers.

  And they are my most important ones!

  I had no idea that it is possible, and I have no idea how many referrers I blocked altogether in my ignorance.

  Now I see that I cannot even help myself with this, so I need help.

  Can you please unblock *all* referrers I have blocked?

  The blog I need help with is https://jobcenteraktivistin.wordpress.com/

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Jun 4, 2016 at 2:03 am

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  Please see: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-referrer-reporting?replies=3

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  cleanairlinda · Member · Jun 4, 2016 at 3:41 am

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  I didn’t mark fb as a spam referrer but all traces of fb referrals have disappeared from my stats suddenly???

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  rachelsquirrel · Member · Jun 4, 2016 at 6:46 am

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  Hello!

  Is this the site – https://jobcenteraktivistin.wordpress.com ? I had a look at the settings for this site and I can’t see any spam referrers there. Let me know if you’re referring to a different site and I can take a look.

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  lizbert1 · Member · Jun 4, 2016 at 3:13 pm

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  All trace of all social media refers have disappeared from my stats too. Nothing from FB, Twitter, Pinterest!! And according to my All time stats I’ve NEVER had anything which is rubbish as they were showing yesterday!! Where have they gone please????? My blog is http://www.dreamdsicoveritalia.com Thanks!

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  jobcenteraktivistin · Member · Jun 4, 2016 at 4:17 pm

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  Oh Shit. Yes @rachelsquirrel, that’s the right site, https://jobcenteraktivistin.wordpress.com

  So there’s got to be something else wrong.

  Twitter and Facebook have definitely vanished from the stats, also from the all-time stats, and I’m not sure whether any “small”referrers (who referred only a few times) have vanished, too.

  That’s the stats in wp-admin.

  To check, the stats in wordpress.com do show Twitter referrals for today, and they show the Facebook-stats in long-term view, too (probably I have nor Facebook referrals today, I have them only when Influencers post something there, but in that cases loads of traffic)

  So the problem is only in wp-admin, (which I like much better).

  Yesterday, I also tried to check the wordpress.com statistics, but they wouldn’t load at all.

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  jobcenteraktivistin · Member · Jun 4, 2016 at 11:40 pm

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  Okay, they’re back. Whatever you did, it worked, and thanks :D

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  lizbert1 · Member · Jun 5, 2016 at 12:08 am

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  Have just checked again and the problem seems to have been rectified. Thanks!

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  cleanairlinda · Member · Jun 5, 2016 at 1:02 am

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  Yes, they are back for me too. Thanks wordpress.

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  rachelsquirrel · Member · Jun 5, 2016 at 6:12 pm

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  I’d love to take the credit here but I didn’t do anything. I’m glad the problem seems to have fixed itself but let me know if it happens again.

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  jobcenteraktivistin · Member · Jun 6, 2016 at 12:17 am

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  Oh and I was so curious how this had happened. Maybe next time we’ll find out (not that I need a next time) :D
  Thanx anyway for your answers <3

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  rachelsquirrel · Member · Jun 6, 2016 at 8:31 am

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  You’re welcome! Happy blogging :)