Unmarking Spam Referrers

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  polak05 · Member · Feb 10, 2015 at 11:43 am

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  Hi,
  I accidentally marked one of my biggest referrers as spam and found out I can undo it only after leaving the stats page.
  I know it does not effect my stats, but is does effect my ability to promote my blog.
  Can I access my blacklist and undo it?
  the site i blacklisted is: http://www.foodpage.co.il/
  thanks,
  Omri

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

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  santnazer · Member · Feb 10, 2015 at 12:41 pm

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  Hi Polak,

  I got the same problem and I’ve a found a disappointing answer there :
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/errant-indicator-of-spam?replies=3

  Regards.

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  polak05 · Member · Feb 10, 2015 at 2:02 pm

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  Hi Theodore,
  seen those same answers, but i hope that if enough of us complain about it maybe the staff will find a solution
  Thanks,

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  saltlake62 · Member · Feb 11, 2015 at 12:59 pm

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  I agree. Obviously there is something wrong with the code because there is no sense in not being able to manage your referrers list. This needs to get fixed.

  In my case, I clicked on it, then tried to unclick it but it was not responding. So I refreshed the page, and now I seem to no longer have the option to undo it.

  Is there a ‘requested bug fix’ list or something comparable that we can submit this request to?

  Thanks!

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  polak05 · Member · Feb 11, 2015 at 1:26 pm

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  To the best of my knowledge there’s no ‘requested bug fix’, but I chatted with WordPress support and they tried to help me
  for know it seems that it didn’t solved the problem, but hopefully it’s a matter of a log-in/log-out situation

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  timethief · Member · Feb 11, 2015 at 8:36 pm

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  See here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-referrer-reporting?replies=3
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#referrers
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#marking-spam-referrers

  Marking spam referrers as spam referrers simply removes the reporting from your stats. It does not block them. The bottom line here is bloggers cannot block spam referrers on WordPress.COM hosted blogs.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 11, 2015 at 8:38 pm

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  NOTE: I posted again above just to let you know that there has been no Staff update on this that I am aware of.

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  chrisspyratos · Member · Feb 27, 2015 at 12:29 am

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  Having the same problem here. I clicked Spam on my biggest source of clicks which is gmail. When I tried to click Not Spam it wasn’t working. I refreshed the page and the I read the info…

  I know that it does not affect my stats but I use gmail for the promotion of my blog and this unfortunate event happened when I was just getting the hang of it.