I’m not sure what happened, but for some reason, on Tuesday this week Out of Babel Books got more than 400 views. That is about 3000% more than my usual 14. Most of these views were from the United States.
I don’t know whether to thank you all for visiting, or grumble that you’re going to wreck my stats. (No matter how good of a day I have after this, it will look like views are down dramatically.)
I think I’ll go with Thank You. I am so glad you visited Out of Babel. I hope you found what you were looking for. I hope you were all peoples and not botses. I hope you will all buy my books and leave breathless reviews… (O.K., no need to get greedy …)
Cheers! Have a great weekend!
Out of Babel Books 
I am the bearer of bad news 😦
Bots from all over the world have been scraping all wordpress.com and wordpress.org related sites. There have been multiple complaints on the support forums and wp’s response has been “Eh, they aren’t hurting you, it’s no big deal”. Even though it means it makes stats totally useless.
Sorry…
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Just as I suspected. Thanks.
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Dang, I wasn’t aware that was happening. Then again, I received a comment earlier today that said communism is great and has lifted millions of people out of poverty….it’s probably not related, but just so I don’t have an aneurism I will pretend that they too were a bot.
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Oh, man. I hope it was a bot.
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As do I
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I don’t think I’m a bot but sometimes bots are programmed to think they’re people so, you know
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ROGUE TERMINATOR!!!!!!!!!!
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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A truly terrifying existential question.
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I am definitely not real. I’m not sure you are either.
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