Comment by Nacraile

I remember a time when I was a relatively computer-illiterate youngling and my favourite game was not particularly stable. I remember churning through many progressively more elaborate superstitions in search of some correlation I could exploit to prevent the dreaded crashes.

Of course, I never succeeded. But the point should stand: people are built around finding and exploiting correlations to their benefit, and we're actually quite good at it. It is not terribly surprising to me that somebody quickly noticed that the annoying bad thing that is consistently happening today also happened consistently for a day precisely one week ago. When the pattern repeats again for a third time...