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My HN account is rate limited by @dang, if I post more than an unspecified amount of comments in an unspecified time frame I get a message telling me to go away.

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Looking at your comment history it’s not clear how many truly add value to the discourse on HN, they’re often “throwaway snipes” at things like Apple and macOS.

It’s possible if you worked to change that and then emailed dang again they’d revisit the comment rate-limiting?

Meh, every time I get into an actual substantial discussion I get rate limited and the conversation has moved on before I get to respond. I'll admit that since the rate limit I haven't bothered to post high value comments, because if I get interesting replies I won't even get to respond back. I'll just make a new account at some point.

Isn’t everybody getting that?

No, I emailed dang and he confirmed my account was rate limited to prevent "flame wars". I get to make about 3 comments every few hours it seems.

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