FYI you can (almost) always get around the "slow reply" limitation by clicking on the age of the comment which brings you to a new page where you can normally c

FYI you can (almost) always get around the "slow reply" limitation by clicking on the age of the comment which brings you to a new page where you can normally comment. Although I believe the moderation is more strict for comments that do that, as the whole point of the reply throttling is to prevent low-effort angry replies.