[blahedo]

Every 5 minutes, right?

  var timer = setTimeout("contentRefresh()", 1000 * 60 * 5);function contentRefresh(){self.location.reload(true)}

But yes, this is astonishingly aggravating. Why would you do this on a site, or at least a page, that is attempting long-form journalism? Don't they want people to, you know, read it?

[morgante]

It's probably the work of a low-paid developer under pressure from business folks to force ad refreshing quickly.