oh it's worse now - if you get some number of downvotes, you get 9 minute timeouts between posts.
that has to be one of the worst features I've ever encountered.. truly despicable
Worse than your post becoming illegible due to css changes?
lol... close call, I hate both.
HN has the same feature, except its like 2 hours
HN has it worse. You do not have even to be downoted to get "you are posting too fast" message. Not the most stupid thing on HN, but close.
HN does something similar, though I don't know the metrics, and it's more of a "you're allowed one post every 20 minutes on a 60 minutes rolling window".