> I am going to guess that some people are trying to scrape the stack overflow data to make their own spinoff blog versions of it. An interesting thought, but

> I am going to guess that some people are trying to scrape the stack overflow data to make their own spinoff blog versions of it. An interesting thought, but it doesn't fit with the description provided by SO of an evolving DDoS attack that originates from different networks in response to mitigations. It's not scraping. It's an attempt to deny service.