It's actually to ensure people aren't using scripts to scrape our site. We don't want to turn off public access, but we do want people to stop taking content from our site and reposting it elsewhere. Having to track down their host information and file a copyright complaint is getting to be a real time suck.
We'd just like an error to be shown if they refresh more than once every minute, which I know is possible when server load is high (if it's above x then certain membergroups see an error message, while other member groups do not). I'd even be happy if it only updated the page content every minute.
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