> There's absolutely no data to back up the suggestion that sites regularly suffer from DDoS.
For a random site from the internet, sure, because a random blog is probably too small to be noticed.
Forums, even relatively niche ones, unfortunately do suffer DDoS from their disgruntled users. (Or competitors of the same fandom. Or from the disgruntled part of a rivaling fandom.)
> It's like talking about getting murdered - it happens, and there are statistics, but if you're literally expecting everyone to change their whole lives based on the fact that some people are murdered, with zero consideration for the where, why and how, you're doing it wrong.
All analogies fail somewhere, but this is probably one of those which easily falls apart. Injuries are probably better. In a random population, there are a relatively small proportion of injuries, but some jobs (like construction) tend to have a significantly higher number of injuries compared to a mean person, in the same manner that a DDoS on a random website is unlikely but certain types of websites are DDoS magnets.
For a random site from the internet, sure, because a random blog is probably too small to be noticed.
Forums, even relatively niche ones, unfortunately do suffer DDoS from their disgruntled users. (Or competitors of the same fandom. Or from the disgruntled part of a rivaling fandom.)
> It's like talking about getting murdered - it happens, and there are statistics, but if you're literally expecting everyone to change their whole lives based on the fact that some people are murdered, with zero consideration for the where, why and how, you're doing it wrong.
All analogies fail somewhere, but this is probably one of those which easily falls apart. Injuries are probably better. In a random population, there are a relatively small proportion of injuries, but some jobs (like construction) tend to have a significantly higher number of injuries compared to a mean person, in the same manner that a DDoS on a random website is unlikely but certain types of websites are DDoS magnets.