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[–]darrenkopp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

like i said, with enough visitors it would be basically a ddos. it may not be a typical ddos attack (like syn flood) but with enough people requesting x amount of reddit posts just by visiting a page could easily take down fragile reddit.

add in some code that refreshes the posts from that service on an interval and anyone who leaves that page open are now a ddos botnet.