WordPress.com mShots

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  darrelllarose · Member · Jun 15, 2012 at 7:50 pm

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  I am seeing these hits on my website (darrelllarose.ca) almost every day, for awhile now. What is this Bot?

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  72.233.96.148 – – [15/Jun/2012:14:36:16 -0400] “HEAD / HTTP/1.1” 200 – “-” “WordPress.com mShots; http://support.wordpress.com/contact/” pid=53019 time=1160

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  69.170.134.169 – – [15/Jun/2012:14:36:16 -0400] “HEAD / HTTP/1.1” 200 – “-” “WordPress.com mShots; http://support.wordpress.com/contact/” pid=13754 time=753

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  69.170.134.169 – – [15/Jun/2012:14:36:16 -0400] “GET / HTTP/1.1” 200 21023 “-” “WordPress.com mShots; http://support.wordpress.com/contact/” pid=60940 time=1326

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  72.233.96.148 – – [15/Jun/2012:14:36:16 -0400] “GET / HTTP/1.1” 200 20803 “-” “WordPress.com mShots; http://support.wordpress.com/contact/” pid=13402 time=1408

  I am puzzled,

  Darrell Larose
  Ottawa, Canada
  613-301-7863
  Blog url: http://darrelllarose.wordpress.com/

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  timethief · Member · Jun 15, 2012 at 7:55 pm

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  mShots was a third party extra feature that has been removed > mShots have been deactivated on all WordPress.com blogs, says a Happiness Engineer:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/does-using-zemanta-disable-mshots?replies=2#post-517481

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  timethief · Member · Jun 15, 2012 at 7:56 pm

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  That, of course, does not explain what you are experiencing, so I have flagged this thread for a Staff response.

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  darrelllarose · Member · Jun 15, 2012 at 8:07 pm

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  I read it was disabled as well, but my logfiles still show almost daily hits…