On: Please don't use hnreputation

[randallsquared]

Well, that's why the IP is blocked -- it looks like a DoS attack to the server software as well. Are there different terms for intentional DoS attacks, as opposed to incidental ones like this? I have the impression that two separate terms might have made your meaning clearer. :)

[billswift → randallsquared]

Maliciousness has limits; stupidity has none. Paraphrasing Napoleon

[gloob → randallsquared]

Are there different terms for intentional DoS attacks, as opposed to incidental ones like this?

Denial Of Service Slip-up? ;)