Thanks, Otto!
I imagine, though, that this will leave me getting “comment” hits from all the spam – is there some way you can think of to integrate this with Akismet, or only to make it a hit when someone is auto-approved by virtue of already having posted a non-spam comment?
It seems like the latter could be done somewhere in comments.php, whereas the former would have to involve tinkering with Akismet itself.
Google Analytic’s urchinTracker allows you to track events on your site that do not generate a pageview.
This looks like it should provide a means to accomplish this functionality, which I’d also like to see. I don’t, however, have the necessary familiarity with the wordpress codebase to implement it.
Perhaps someone else can give it a try?
Thanks!
