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windsurfer on April 19, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Reddit is currently experiencing a malicious DDoS ...

You might be overzealous with your bot blocking. I'm being told I'm actually a robot:

    you appear to be a bad robot
    check out the rules for robots. thanks.

wjamesg on April 19, 2013 | [–]

I believe I've had this happen when using a VPN service (though I could be mistaken)

Pyramids on April 19, 2013 | [–]

Same here, are you using RES or anything else which might increase request volume?

jaredmcateer on April 19, 2013 | [–]

I use RES, not having any issues.

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