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(Not the OP.) I'm using Tor Browser on a desktop/laptop. I'm seeing different problems: (1) Rate-limiting: My regular account (this is a throwaway) has thousan

(Not the OP.) I'm using Tor Browser on a desktop/laptop. I'm seeing different problems: (1) Rate-limiting: My regular account (this is a throwaway) has thousands in karma, but after around 4 comments I still get the 'you're posting too fast' rate limiter. Perhaps HN could disable rate-limiting after the Tor user has a certain amount of karma. (2) Comments seem penalized, starting in the middle of threads instead of at the top. This issue has come and gone a couple of times (it's happening now on my regular account). It seems to stop when I have had an interaction with the mods; I wonder if they notice and disable it. It seems to restart after I get several downvotes in a short period; perhaps that triggers some algorithm which decides that comments over Tor are shady. (3) Registering accounts requires a captcha and is frustrating, though something I rarely have to deal with. To register this throwaway account I got a captcha, completed it, approved. HN said the username as taken, and when I entered another username the process started over - another captcha. Then the username was too long, so I started over again.

torthrow123123 8y ago
Well, HN won't let me delete or edit the parent comment for some reason (new accounts can't edit or delete their comments?). I just realized that the parent is from Cloudflare, not HN, so my comment isn't very applicable. Sorry. I'll copy it to its own thread. HN can blame itself for the spam (unless they block me from posting it anew, too.)
ocdtrekkie 8y ago
I suspect these are not related to your use of Tor. Note that jgrahamc is at Cloudflare, not HN, and was asking about the Cloudflare interactions people on Tor are having, as the CAPTCHA the OP is speaking about is implemented by Cloudflare. I am currently rate-limited, I have been on rate-limiting before, and I've had my rate-limiting disappear. This has more to do with how happy (or unhappy, as the case is) the mods are with your commenting habits than what browser you are using. I do not know if your rate limit penalty has an expiration date or if they manually remove you, HN mods rarely if ever discuss rate limiting, but it is almost surely to curb what HN mods consider poor quality comments and ensure they don't overwhelm a discussion.
- dang 8y ago
  It's not so uncommon that we discuss rate limiting. We do that all the time when people email us and I've posted not infrequently about it: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=by:dang%20rate%20limit https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... People are welcome to ask questions, though as the site guidelines ask, it's better to do that by emailing us. Being rate limited is annoying, so I appreciate the even-handedness in what you wrote.

torthrow123123 8y ago

Well, HN won't let me delete or edit the parent comment for some reason (new accounts can't edit or delete their comments?). I just realized that the parent is from Cloudflare, not HN, so my comment isn't very applicable. Sorry. I'll copy it to its own thread. HN can blame itself for the spam (unless they block me from posting it anew, too.)

ocdtrekkie 8y ago

I suspect these are not related to your use of Tor. Note that jgrahamc is at Cloudflare, not HN, and was asking about the Cloudflare interactions people on Tor are having, as the CAPTCHA the OP is speaking about is implemented by Cloudflare. I am currently rate-limited, I have been on rate-limiting before, and I've had my rate-limiting disappear. This has more to do with how happy (or unhappy, as the case is) the mods are with your commenting habits than what browser you are using. I do not know if your rate limit penalty has an expiration date or if they manually remove you, HN mods rarely if ever discuss rate limiting, but it is almost surely to curb what HN mods consider poor quality comments and ensure they don't overwhelm a discussion.

dang 8y ago
It's not so uncommon that we discuss rate limiting. We do that all the time when people email us and I've posted not infrequently about it: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=by:dang%20rate%20limit https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... People are welcome to ask questions, though as the site guidelines ask, it's better to do that by emailing us. Being rate limited is annoying, so I appreciate the even-handedness in what you wrote.