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The other day my daily viewing stats exploded for no apparent reason.
500 views with no comments made me wonder why.
I mean… let’s be honest, I’m not that interesting.
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Though clearly Patricia thought so.
The fact that she never interacted and liked mostly old posts made me realize she was probably a bot, but it was kind of fun to reread things I hadn’t seen in a while. And since most of us weren’t connected then, please take a walk down memory lane with me and heed my advice about Corpse Revivers.
They’re dangerous.
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https://riversworld.live/2018/08/23/never-trust-a-corpse-reviver/
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Mine too. One view for almost every old post. No likes, no comments. Ah well…
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It’s so weird. If they’re bots, what’s the point?
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I was 2,856% up on normal 🤣
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Crazy!
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For a moment I thought I’d gone viral, then I realised I’d just caught a cold!
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Ha!
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And no amount of alcohol could tempt me to eat those mussel! 😬
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I haven’t eaten one since. It was an absinthe inspired anomaly.
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😂😂😂
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And she will probably “like” thiis post too. I wouldn’t be surprised if already.
The “serial liker” as I call them when I get these type of people.
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If she’s actually a person? Weird, but okay. I just don’t like the idea of bots strolling around my site.
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Oh yes, the cocktail that made you actually eat mussels in green slop/pea soup, lol.
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Never again.
I swear!
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The bots are evil. One of them is reverse image searching looking for “copyrighted” images being used without permission and sending threatening emails that amount to extortion. Got two of them in the past week, and have removed my contact info from my blog…
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Whaaaat?
Thats crazy….
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It is, even moreso that it’s not even actual scammers. But a legit operation based out of Germany whose been doing this on behalf of stock image companies for a few years now (thank you AI revolution). Copytrack is their name, and you can Google others who’ve been hounded by them…
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Yikes.
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Replying not liking, so you know I’m a real person! Thanks for this information. I’d hate to be hounded like that.
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I certainly don’t mind people reading and liking, but not dropping comments on hundreds of posts does make me suspicious.
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I don’t know..i’ve sonetimes gone back in time to.like older posts by people whose blogs i just started following
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As have I, but a few here and there. Not 700…
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Yeah that’s def a bot SMH
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I noticed the same thing. I suddenly had a couple of days with hundreds more viewers than usual.
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You mean I’m not special…?
😉
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Oh, you’re definitely special…
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Thanks.
I feel better now.
🤣
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Oh, wow. On all counts. Alcohol has quite the adverse impact on impulse control. I wonder if it would make me like onions? Or just start throwing them?
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Well, I haven’t eaten a mussel since… so it’s not a lasting effect.
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Patricia has been reading my blog from the start for about a year, usually likes a few posts a day. I think she’s legit because she has left a couple of comments that tied in with what I’d written. I never actually considered that she might be a bot, but like you say, what would the point be?
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That’s good to know. She hasn’t commented on any of mine so I wondered…
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Snap with the “tons of pings resulting in me viewing an old post” – literally. That’s what prompted my most recent post. Yours is hilarious though, and it really made me want to revive our old bar area. Have you changed your mind about mussels since then?
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I have not. The slimy little devils won’t be sliding down my throat ever again.
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I’m thinking all that liquor probably didn’t help their reputation in your stomach.
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Probably not.
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Interesting idea about the bot. I’ve had people reading old posts lately too. I wonder what’s up with that? And no thank you for the Corpse Reviver or the mussels. I love steamed clams, but not so much with mussels.
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I like clam chowder and fried clams but can’t do steamers. I think it’s a texture thing for me…
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I love clam chowder and fried razor clams.
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I checked my stats after you mentioned bots. My stats were booming to 400 yesterday which is highly unusual. There were an inordinate amount from China and Nigeria. That is odd. They also were looking at older posts.
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Sounds like it’s happening to everyone…
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I think so, too. I’ve heard several people write about it.
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“I blame the Absinthe.” You know what they say about absinthe…”absinthe makes the fond grow harder.”
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Sounds about right.
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It is a BOT. It has a WordPress page with no entries, no comments, no followers, and no profile. It has a link trying to sell you on another social app.
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I figured.
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I have never been visited by a like-a-bot, but I had never been in WordPress spam jail before and that happened recently, so I suspect the day will come soon enough when a bot comes a callin’.
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It does make you feel like one of the popular kids…
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That’s seriously weird
Bot action?!?
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That’s my guess.
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I don’t know how anything could make mussels taste good to me!!
Bots are weird; I never trusted them myself. 😅
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