Visitor Counts

I guess I've got to feed a troll here.. and I know I'm giving him exactly what he craves.. like a heroin junkie craving the next fix..

LBM - on a daily basis, and often multiple times per-day keeps spamming my comments.. and he's threatening.. very very specific threats. The more I ignore him, the more threatening he becomes. Most times I delete his comments off without even reading them, but occasionally I'll see something weird in the first sentence and have a look.

This has been going on for months.

But the odd thing is, he'll turn around the next moment and offer to somehow "help" me. It's a very strange sort of schizophrenic stalking type behavior. I'm pretty sure he's cyber stalking a number of people from the comfort of his very own suite in a mental hospital.

To be sure, there are a lot of really crazy people in the world. A lot of them are very dangerous, and grow even more dangerous when you dismiss them out-of-hand as just some crazy freak show. I do like to throw the term "crazy" around a bit.. particularly when it comes to religious nuts.. but there is crazy.. and then there is scary dangerous crazy.. with a very definite disorder associated with it.

LBM's latest kick to get mentions on my blog is to claim that he is the source of the "hits" on this blog. He thinks that if he plays the foil, and causes a stir, it will somehow attract larger and larger numbers of readers to my little corner of the blog-o'-sphere. His "concern trolling" is simply wanting to make my blog some great place with lots of hits.. and he's "concerned" that I'm not making full use of the potential here.. and if I just "team up" with him.. it'll be all fantastic.

Then you take all of that, and frame it around various messages containing threats and so on.. it's just this weird psychotic jumble of spam.

Here's the page views over the last year;

LBM seems to think the big drop-off in readers in June resulted from my banning him.. even though.. you know.. I banned him back in March or so.. and there's been a huge spike since then.. so obviously lots of people like that he has no forum here to say anything at all.

But wait.. haven't I explained all this before? Yep - indeed I have. The only reason the page views spiked is because I posted a very specific reference to the tax rebates, and my blog showed up towards the top of the google search for that string of text.. and lots and lots of people clicked on the link. It had nothing to do with politics, or culture, or my writing.. or anything. It was just a bunch of people wanting to know more about the tax rebate.

So... naturally.. when that very specific issue (taxes) died down, my page views returned to where they've traditionally been.. around 50 or so readers a day. I think that's basically the number of people out there that specifically come here to read what I've written.

... and I'm pleased as punch that there are 50. It could not be better.

.. and if there were 20, that would be great too.

. If only one other person on this planet gave a shit to come here and read something I've written - that would make it all worth while.

Or, if maybe I'm just writing this for me.. so at some point in the future, I can go back and read what I was thinking a long time ago. That's pretty neat. It's like an on-line diary... which is why I often post things about my thought processes, or what I'm doing and so on.. not just specifically on politics.

I want to make this absolutely clear. I don't care what the hit counts are for my blog. I don't care to expand my hit counts. I don't care about the statistics. I don't care at all.. not one teeney tiny.. little.. bit.. and I will never - ever.. allow LBM to leave any sort of message at all.

I don't care about the comments. If somebody wants to leave a message, I'll certainly respond to it.. and read what they have to say... unless it's from LBM. Everyone else on the planet can say what they want.. but not him.. no way.. not ever.

So.. did I make a mistake in acknowledging his existence? I take very seriously his threats, and I will forward them to the authorities as they warrant (sitemeter records everyone's IP addresses btw).. I just want to make sure that everyone is clear on this one issue.

I.. don't give a fuck.. how many people read this.

I do appreciate those that do.

....

No doubt he will be immensely gratified I have acknowledged his existence. He'll be super pleased that all his efforts (dozens and dozens of weird spam) have paid off, and he got a mention on my blog. He actually had an effect on something.. for a change.

But, it's not really about LBM. People like him are just a crazy whisper of paranoid fantasies, that derive a purpose of existence through causing irritation to others. He's like a cockroach, that always manages to avoid getting squished at the last second. It lurks.. and it keeps doing it's feeble and powerless tirades of schizophrenic rage..

It's worth noting that those sociopaths that enjoy pain in in others are living a tortured existence. That's the whole point of trying to get everyone else to live in the same pain.. It never works, of course.. but psychotic compulsive disorders are like that... powerless and meaningless.. a few scribbles of text from the internet, that I I first yawn.. and then delete.

And blogger makes it nice because you can click one button to "select all" - and delete. That way, it doesn't even take more than a couple of seconds to erase their efforts out of existence.