[charcircuit]

If you make it prohibitively expensive almost no regular user will want to wait for it.

[xboxnolifes]

Regular users usually aren't page hopping 10 pages per second. A regular user is usually 100 times less than that.

[pabs3]

I tend to get blocked by HN when opening lots of comment pages in tabs with Ctrl+click.

[xboxnolifes]

Yes, HN has a fairly strict slow down policy for commenting. But, that's irrelevant to the context.

[pabs3]

I meant to say article pages not comment pages, but ack.

[bobmcnamara]

Exponential backoff!