I clicked on a link to the comment, then I keep pressing “show context” to see the comment one level higher, then I get hit with this screen…
Kinda reminds me of that news story where one person accidentally shut down the internet of an entire country…
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Rate limiting is a measure against dos, but you hit a rate limit before a dos happens, otherwise it’s failed to do it’s job.
Rate limiting stops a specific ‘entity’ from accessing a server too many times over a certain time period.
It only blocked you because it identified that you’re hitting their servers at a higher threshold rate than server admins are comfortable with.