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by charcircuit 425 days ago
If you make it prohibitively expensive almost no regular user will want to wait for it.
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Regular users usually aren't page hopping 10 pages per second. A regular user is usually 100 times less than that.
I tend to get blocked by HN when opening lots of comment pages in tabs with Ctrl+click.
Yes, HN has a fairly strict slow down policy for commenting. But, that's irrelevant to the context.
I meant to say article pages not comment pages, but ack.
Exponential backoff!