The "slow down, you're submitting too fast" thing is arbitrary and per-account. My account is specifically penalized, for example, and I have a far lower commen

The "slow down, you're submitting too fast" thing is arbitrary and per-account. My account is specifically penalized, for example, and I have a far lower comment limit than pretty much everyone else. This was added without notification to me or appeal opportunity despite my e-mail being in my profile, and also means my comments are "demoted" below often punishingly-downvoted comments. So you'll see comments, then barely legible gray comments, then mine. I also cannot respond to deep threads because I burn my budget getting there, and then have to wait a couple days to continue a discussion. And that's just how my account is, now, even after conversing with them about it; Dan could not recall the specifics of why I was penalized but was resistant to removing it based upon a determination of my quality of character. From comments. On a forum. My best guess is that there's a box on an account with an automatic and manual score adjustment, mine contains -100 or something, downvotes (real or synthetic) affect that timer that you see, but only 'real' downvotes trigger the somehow-still-exists-in-2016 'turn a comment gray' logic. I'm not saying any of this to gripe, just that I doubt I'm the only one, I doubt that threshold is fully manual, and I doubt that the one for submitting links and the one for commenting are wildly divergent. A few days seems long, which is why I mention it. So perhaps you submitted something a million years ago that was quietly looked down upon and your account carries consequences; it wouldn't be the first time, since it was apparently one comment a million years ago that earned me my own status. And it matters so little nobody remembers. Might be worth asking since they were more than willing to tell me once I asked, but it turned into a surreal "can we trust you to be a good boy if we remove it?" back-and-forth and I lost interest in attempting to satisfy Internet forum moderators with tales of personal development and growth. Good luck, if you do.