Not All Stats Are Useful, or Meaningful

WordPress is a dandy hosting platform with some curious limitations and curiouser utilities.  One of said utilities is a tracker that lets me know which of the 1000+ articles I have written (it has been a very long time indeed) attracts views.  Among the “popular” articles is my brief and tantalizing review of The Thin H-line, a vaguely pornographic comic strip long discontinued by its creator, partly because he’s depressed, and partly because his “friends” shunned him when they discovered he had created it.[0]

The statistics involved here are even more curious: on days when I have no traffic but one view, it’s almost always this article. Crazy; I mean, I understand the attraction of porn (no problem), but The Thin H-Line is just a comic with porn themes. Not sexy at all. I wonder if the constant visitations are bot-generated?  For a time, WordPress blogs were inundated with spamming comments, but this stopped when Facebook became the main waste of time for many people. I was initially disheartened by the decline of my little blogempire from around 40,000 visitors a year to mere hundreds…and many of them aimed at The Thin H-Line.  I now just keep it up (infrequently) just out of habit (originally I published it just to show my sister how to monetize a blog. I did very little of that, as she showed little interest in the process) and now I just do this to keep my (few) friends apprised of little things I find amusing).[1] Also, I am a slave to habit.[2]

 

In any case, the bot must be singularly ineffective, because that article is old and probably still just as uninteresting as it ever was.  If anyone has an idea about this, leave a comment. My curiosity is killing me.

 

[0] This is not Stuff I Like. I do not believe these people were very good friends at all.

[1] Like parentheses.  I love parentheses.

[2] Among other things.