John Ward December 6, 2014 SLOG HITS MYSTERY: Wordpress wipes the record & mystery becomes unmystery

SLOG HITS MYSTERY: WordPress wipes the record, mystery becomes unmystery.

The Slog’s woes continued yesterday: another disastrous hits day with visits at 4 pm GMT roughly 2,500…a good 70% below normal.

But then, towards teatime, something very odd happened.

I got one of those “Hi how can we help?” messages from WordPress (entirely absent while I was asking for help) and when I was finished explaining the problem, Rachel appeared and said there’s a stats issue “but only in British locations”.

Well now, there’s a thing.

As I wrote earlier, I doubt very much if this was anything to do with WordPress: I suspect it was more to do with nobbling servers, but you can see here why this wasn’t paranoia on my part.

After the live-chat ended, the hits immediately improved. But as I am become an suspicious man, I took screen snaps of graphs showing how Slog hits had plunged during the previous 48 hours.

I’m glad I did. This morning, I awake to find I am he of the Hit Plunge that Never Happened: both previous days now show normal-to-high hits. History has been erased by Winston WordPress in the Ministry of Truth. Things that didn’t happen did happen, and things that did happen never happened.

Nothing is real and everything is subject to bad memory syndrome. Do not adjust your set, we are now in control. This is the queue for the showers. Etc etc etc.

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Baron on December 9, 2014 at 8:54 pm

@Democratic Kindeling
Who asked you? And the courtesy of a reply would show style. Glib throw away remarks are easy.
If the object exercise of a blog is to gather a bunch of sycophants and fellow travellers rather than debate that’s fine.
Let’s see it as the blog’s mission statement.

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Democratic Kindeling on December 9, 2014 at 4:41 pm

On Johns’ site you need to take your licks like a big boy, noble or not.

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Democratic Kindeling on December 9, 2014 at 4:40 pm

Thanks Lizzie. I really enjoyed that.

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Woodgnome on December 8, 2014 at 10:24 pm

Don’t know about John, but I’d rather you didn’t. In my honest opinion, Max Kaiser is about 80% correct, most of the time. You see, we in the critical thinking fraternity have a thing called ‘doing your own research’, inconvenient as that may be to the powers that be. There seem to be more of us every day, so I would rather suggest that our Corporate/Oliogarch masters get a bit of a move on with the false flag bullshit they think might convince us that they haven’t actually been arse-raping us for the past 111 years.

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Baron on December 8, 2014 at 8:32 am

“On the whole” I presume means totally. You’d rather I didn’t visit your site anymore?

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John Ward on December 7, 2014 at 8:34 pm

Baron
On the whole no, I’d rather you didn’t.

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John Ward on December 7, 2014 at 8:29 pm

Ben Fitz
Read it again and then have another go.

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Baron on December 7, 2014 at 12:06 pm

My view is this:- Russell Brand is a stalking horse for the establishment. He’s extremely wealthy and moves in the highest circles. Russell Brand is funny and clever but is a lighting rod for the “suspicious of authority” crowd (particularly the young).
Every demo or production that RB is on is totally Russell Brand (full frontal and overwhelming). “Brand” should be a clue.
Keiser is an insiders insider supposedly escaped from the grip of Wall Street. Rants and shouts. Is a shill for the “Man Made Global Warming” scam. Is a pumper for various causes like “Buy Silver and Crash JP Morgan” (how did that go then?). He is also a pumper for BitCoin now. His whole “raison d’être” is publicity for Max Keiser and hisTV shows and film spin-offs.
Want me to go on?

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kimsarah on December 7, 2014 at 6:02 am

If you believe in politicians and government reports, you are disinformed.
To Baron, I would not put Russell Brand and Max Keiser in that group of faux activists. But then again, you may know them better than I.

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PeterinPortugal on December 6, 2014 at 11:31 pm

Mark Twain
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.”

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Lizzie Cornish on December 6, 2014 at 7:08 pm

“The black wind blows like you’ve never seen
And your TV screen is filled with snow
And the naked truth has an unmarked grave
Between the waves on your radio
And war is peace and peace is war
And less is more and yes is no
They want to tell you this, they want to tell you that
Just hold your hat when the black wind blows

EVERYWHERE I GO I HEAR WHAT’S GOING ON
AND THE MORE I HEAR THE LESS I KNOW
EVERYWHERE I GO I HEAR WHAT’S GOING ON
AND THE MORE I HEAR THE LESS I KNOW

And they’re all tripped out on the ship of state
They’re running late for the breakfast show
And God likes guns, doves are hawks
And Jesus walks in Idaho
And the food we buy won’t go bad
But the cows are mad and the chickens glow
They want to tell you this, they want to sell you that
Just hold your hat when the black wind blows”

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OyiaBrown on December 6, 2014 at 2:46 pm

Reblogged this on Oyia Brown.

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carroccio1958 on December 6, 2014 at 1:42 pm

Seconded

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Baron on December 6, 2014 at 12:47 pm

“Winston WordPress in the Ministry of Truth”

My paranoia has just had an attack of paranoia!
Could it be that WordPress despite seeming to be a place where independent bloggers strut their stuff is in fact a branch of the Tavistock Institute with input from GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 with guest writers from Mossad and the CIA? Moi paranoid?
Could it possibly be there are no real bloggers (yourself excepted as they’ve got to have few real ones) after all but only faceless entities churning out competing conspiracy stories and false facts?
YouTube is now awash with obvious bogus events like Sandy Hook, Boston bombing, 911, 7/7 etc. etc. All debunking each other and debunking the debunking to confuse and sap the will of the average person with any spark of curiosity.
High profile YouTubers like Russell Brand, David Icke, Max Keiser, Alex Jones, etc. all pushing the anti-establishment agenda while laughing up their collective sleeves and generally living amongst the people they seem to criticise. All actually looking as though they are doing pretty well out of their faux activism.

The deception is so all pervading that I’ve started disbelieving myself.

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benfitzg on December 6, 2014 at 12:45 pm

Again get advice on tech issues before publishing. It does you no credit and makes me think “if he can be this wrong on tech yet think he’s right…”

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Glory Days on December 6, 2014 at 12:34 pm

I am involved in online marketing, everything the user does is tracked, measured and reported, and I can assure you that short term stats problems occur all of the time.

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joekano76 on December 6, 2014 at 12:26 pm

Reblogged this on TheFlippinTruth.

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sdbast on December 6, 2014 at 11:59 am

Reblogged this on sdbast.

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Mazz on December 6, 2014 at 11:53 am

…you can see here why…

No, I can’t, there is no pointer when I hover over it and click, nothing happens!

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