Which means there must be some sort of weighting system they use to determine if you are rate-limiting worthy.
It keeps happening to me, I have to email them and someone other than dang answers the email and apologises for the limit being applied, then gets rid of it. Of course, being in another time zone I find it takes quite a long time, and in fact the rate limit never seems to get removed even after a day.
For a very, very long time. I've asked dang to look into why it occurred to me, and his response is the following:
Since we've discussed these matters at length in the past, another lengthy discussion is unlikely to accomplish much.
The reasons are much the same as before, which means you have a bit of work to do to figure out what you need to do differently if you want to post freely to HN. Sending demanding emails is not doing that work. In fact it's a signal that you're not doing it. Sincere effort will go a much longer way.
Daniel
Here are the problematic posts:
- a comment where I say that we need to have civil discourse, after which dang tells me I'm trolling (which is truly remarkable...) - he then detached it from the thread and at this point I got rate limited https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12911140
Just before then I recall researching and posting a detailed comment on query tuning and analysis in database engines, and a number of other informative and well received comments.
When the mods here have got it in for you, they've got it in for you.
I generally feel my heart sink whenever I see dang or sctb post — it is almost always a negative contribution to the discussion, of the form 'we have detached this thread, because we don't like it, for opaque reasons.'
I like to hope that they're doing lots of good work in the backend of HN, but what I see on the frontend is almost uniformly negative.
