Yeah... if I open Chrome I am pretty much guaranteed to be banned for days. :( The mechanism should really be changed to account for this: a ton of requests per second for only a few seconds should not trigger an issue, it should be a number of requests per second spike along with some sustained usage per minute. I actually made modifications to Chrome to change how it loads tabs mainly because of Hacker News' weird IP ban system, but I still got burned recently as I accidentally hit "undo close tab" one too many times, which reopened an entire window.