Huh, that's really weird

[hrj]

Ok, ok, so I'm a massive numbers geek and I've realized that checking my online traffic statistics and that sort of this is sort of a ritual self-soothing technique for me. If it weren't I wouldn't have had occasion to notice that this past Monday, at 9-10am local time, I have an enormous spike of LJ traffic. (Like: triple my normal daily rate, and the "extra" all visiting during that one hour.) I suppose it's possible that some p0rn-sniffing web-bot picked up on the LHMP topic for that day, but given how often I use "the L word" I doubt that just adding the words "decadent" and "evil" would increase hits. And there was no similar jump in hits on my Alpennia website, which is where I link to when posting blog pointers in other social media. The visitor log shows a jump in logged visits from Russian accounts over the next few days after that (which I'm generally certain are bot-like activity).

So I guess I'll chalk it up to some sort of random fallout from some entirely unrelated LJ phenomenon. A pity. I thought maybe I'd posted something that really took off and went viral. I guess not.