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0 pointscharcircuit1y ago0 comments

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

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xboxnolifes1y ago· 2 in thread

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

pabs31y ago

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.

Exponential backoff!

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