@archaeme Basically insofar as I can tell when they first connect to someone on another server that's unknown they try to pull all of your notices.  At least, I noticed a shitton of hits to the notice API when people connect to me.  If you don't have many notices then that isnt as much an issue but trying to get my 41k+ on HLA is pretty much as @fl0wn describes it a DOS attack.  I think what is causing this is their conversation stitching being a little bit shit.