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I'll just throw in a "me too" with the other responders and say this error annoys the dickens out of me -- and I'm a long-time user and a medium-long-time initiate in the knowledge of the error's source (I tracked it down in the source in a fit of pique about 6 months ago after getting the error for the Nth time).

Besides the actual annoyance of the error, what's extra rankling is it is an example of privileging a neat trick over user-experience, which is one of my Least Favorite Things Ever that programmers tend to do.

(As an aside, I am extremely skeptical that increasing rates of this error occurring will help keep the original user community of the site -- it seems equally likely that longtime users will just get fed up and wander off.)