Quote Originally Posted by Nitroedge View Post
Thanks for the speedy reply!

I'd love to just hide them and never log them nor see them, that would be great. Just filtering them out so I can concentrate on analyzing real customers.
You say "them". Are you referring to the single line of text or the "person" that entered that line of data?

Just to try to explain a little. To prevent any log entry of a row of data means that there must be some "pre-known" list of things to not log. That could be a word list that has been generated based on previous review, or some other factor. To not log a "user", requires pretty much the same thing (pre-made list) and then possibly some action to be taken if they "trip" across one of the no-no items.

If only a single record/page visit is skipped for each "keyword" then there are likely to be time gaps between one page visit and another when looking at the recorded data. (would likely want to flag the "user" as having tried to access one of the no-no items.)

Then on the output side, if the record had been logged, such keywords could be used as a filter to prevent different types of reporting: make the "user" a spider/bot, hide the single page visit from the totals, hide the user from page views, etc...