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Dang, what is the deal with accounts being unfairly blocked from submitting links? And can mods apply this punishment arbitrarily? Some accounts are allowed to

by Tozen 4y ago

Dang, what is the deal with accounts being unfairly blocked from submitting links? And can mods apply this punishment arbitrarily? Some accounts are allowed to submit links frequently, even a few minutes between submissions, while other accounts are being blocked from submitting and can only do so once every few or 24 hours. "You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks." Is this some type of new punitive action? It also looks very unfair, when applied to accounts that are clearly not spammers (and maybe submit a few times in a day or week) or appears as a punitive action because of some difference of opinion with a mod.

dang 4y ago
We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments too quickly and/or get involved in flamewars, as your account did recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33578462 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33578462. Rate limits apply to all posting (i.e. both submissions and comments). We're happy to remove the rate limit when we believe that an account is going to use HN as intended in the future. However, you just broke the site guidelines badly a few minutes ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33686024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33686024. Posting like that will get you banned here! — regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are — so please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and make sure not to post like that in the future. Once you've built up a track record of not breaking the site guidelines, you'd be welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll take a look and hopefully remove the rate limit.
- Tozen 4y ago
  I see. Have to avoid the low quality comments and involvement in flamewars. The original comment was removed as well, in addition to the ones after and before the one linked. Understood.

by Tozen 4y ago

dang 4y ago

We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments too quickly and/or get involved in flamewars, as your account did recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33578462 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33578462. Rate limits apply to all posting (i.e. both submissions and comments). We're happy to remove the rate limit when we believe that an account is going to use HN as intended in the future. However, you just broke the site guidelines badly a few minutes ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33686024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33686024. Posting like that will get you banned here! — regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are — so please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and make sure not to post like that in the future. Once you've built up a track record of not breaking the site guidelines, you'd be welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll take a look and hopefully remove the rate limit.

Tozen 4y ago
I see. Have to avoid the low quality comments and involvement in flamewars. The original comment was removed as well, in addition to the ones after and before the one linked. Understood.