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I think this list is pretty old and the post rate limiting is a pretty recent feature from late last year IIRC.
by pinephoneguy 5y ago
I think this list is pretty old and the post rate limiting is a pretty recent feature from late last year IIRC.
- causi 5y agoShadow muting isn't directly related to how fast you're posting, but how many of your comments are downvoted within a certain period of time. If your comments are well-received you can make much more of them in a given span than if most or all of them are downvoted.
- dang 5y agoIt doesn't have anything to do with downvotes.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- hunterb123 5y agoThe shadow muting is the most annoying feature ever and leads to an echo chamber.
- tediousdemise 5y agoYeah, the shadow muting/karma monitoring system leads to inorganic discussion since people are constantly walking on eggshells to protect their karma. I think 4chan has done moderation better than anyone to date.
- wanderer_ 5y ago> 4chan has done moderation This statement may or may not be totally factually accurate. Heh, look! I didn't break any of the eggshells!
- ipaddr 5y agoAs someone forgets his password often and has to create another account. Half the fun is making it to 500.. once you hit 525 it's hard to slide back under if you act semi-responsibly.
- TigeriusKirk 5y agoYou're not wrong. It ultimately causes more harm than good. But it's clear the mods are enamored with it, so don't expect it to go away.
- dang 5y agoWe're not enamored with rate limiting. By temperament I'd far rather not penalize anybody, plus it would be a gift from heaven to be free of the enormous number of demands it leads to. (We could ignore the demands, but that would be bad, so we don't.) We do it because it's one of the few tools we have to try to prevent this place from destroying itself. Most of the other tools (such as replying to comments) take enormous much time and energy. It's necessary to have at least a few measures that can be done in software. I wish that everyone complaining about this could realize the irony of the complaint: one of the reasons why the thing valuable enough to be worth complaining about exists in the first place is measures like rate limiting. But I know that's too much to ask.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- dang 5y agoNo doubt it's the worst solution, except for all the others. We have few software tools for dampening the descent of this place into flamewar. If HN burns itself to a crisp, what good does that do anyone? I do think it can be improved by making it more of a probation system that explains what's happening and how long the probation period is, presumably with some sort of exponential backoff so that over time probation converges to a permanent penalty. This is on the list to implement.
- hunterb123 5y agoWhat triggers it? If it's downvotes over a time period I don't see how that's a reliable method to determine whether someone should be on "probation". If it's manual then I dispute the decision behind it as I'm constantly limited and I'm very cordial while albeit contrarian. I'm not saying there should be no moderation, just that whatever is triggering the shadow muting is flawed. If you want post limits, enable them for everyone.
- tptacek 5y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30461012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30461012
- dang 5y agoWe rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments too quickly and/or get involved in flamewars. If an account is doing a lot of things that damage HN for its intended purpose, obviously we have to do something. > If you want post limits, enable them for everyone. That would be inconsistent with optimizing for curiosity [1]. There are heaps of users from whom the more comments HN is lucky to receive, the better. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=curiosity%20optimiz%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
- TigeriusKirk 5y agoWhat's the purpose of links like that in your moderation comments? I click on them assuming they'll lead to additional explanation, but they're only ever showing that you've used some particular word or phrase before. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be taking away from that.
- sparkie 5y agoI've been rate limited since around 2018 to 5 posts per 3 hours. This was manually set by a mod.
- The_rationalist 5y ago
- SilasX 5y agoWait how do you know it was manually set? I’ve been throttled under a pattern like that for the past few months I think.
- ratg13 5y agoSomewhere in that range is likely the limit for most people. This is a good thing.
- tediousdemise 5y agoSame here. I think it actually improved my mental health because I can only post 5 comments a day. I also feel like this limitation gives my comments a lot more weight, so it challenges me to really make a quality comment if I can help it. Maybe it should be a default for everyone, although some keyboard warriors would probably get tilted.
- ipaddr 5y agoMake another account if it matters.
- dang 5y agoIt's easy enough to get un-rate-limited. Just build up a track record of making substantive, curious contributions—that is, of using HN as intended—and then ask us at hn@ycombinator.com. It's not as if we're unresponsive (although the inbox does have poor worst-case latency). Actually we often take rate limits off accounts without being asked. It's a matter of looking through the history and seeing if the account has stopped taking threads further into flamewar and/or is no longer making a habit of unsubstantive comments.
- dang 5y agoNo, rate limiting goes all the way back to the origin of HN, or at least before my time.