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The exact rate limit, to my understanding, is tuned by the moderators. So one of them presumably thought you were making some inflammatory comments and made a c

The exact rate limit, to my understanding, is tuned by the moderators. So one of them presumably thought you were making some inflammatory comments and made a conscious choice to slow you down. Reach out to hn@ycombinator.com to find out more and make an appeal.

RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 4y ago
> The exact rate limit, to my understanding, is tuned by the moderators. So one of them presumably thought you were making some inflammatory comments and made a conscious choice to slow you down. I have read my comments before the timeout again multiple times before posting this thread here and IMHO they are just stating facts about software, not much of making an opinion about the facts themselves. I had intentionally left room for other commenters to have their own opinion. Quote: "As with all things in life, a golden rule applies: If you don't like it then don't use it, that's ok!" > Reach out to hn@ycombinator.com to find out more and make an appeal. Uhm, are you actually a human who has read my thread or are you some kind of chat AI? Because the first line literally says: "Some suggest emailing HN, but I do not have an email address anymore (because they all want phone numbers nowadays)." Anyway, considering the large number of upvotes this Ask HN has gained, seems more people in the community are interested in clarity. Considering the search function also does not yield clarity it would probably be beneficial for the moderation team and overall peace to make things more clear here?
- ddevault 4y ago
  "I do not have an email address" is not a reasonable state of being. The way you can resolve this is via email, and you should obtain one.
  - RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 4y ago
    I'm not going to hand out my phone number to internet services, I get enough phone spam already. Sorry :)
    - zamnos 4y ago
      You should be apologizing to yourself. This stance, which I'm sure you see as reasonable (it's not), is directly causing you a problem, a problem that you're here asking for help to resolve (but it's already been flagged). You're free not to get an email address, but you're also the one rate limited to 5/day, so it seems the ball is in your court. The idiom that comes to mind is "cutting off your nose to spite your face."
      - RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 4y ago
        I'm sorry, I posted some questions about Hackernews, on Hackernews. I do not see how I should suddenly become customer to some unrelated external services which could literally cause my phone to ring all day just in order to be entitled to ask some questions? It seems you're escalating the tone here, which I do not intend to participate in.
        zamnos 4y ago
        But these aren't questions for the community, these are questions for the admins that actually run this place, and there's little to no guarantee they'd even see this post, whereas an email to them would get seen by them. Everyone else here has about as much power as you do to change your account to allow you to comment more. If you believe your phone is going to ring all day because you have an email address, I'm not sure anyone here can help you. You may need a refresher on how phones work.
        RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 4y ago
        > But these aren't questions for the community, The answers to the questions are of interest to the community so why not have them see them? :) > these are questions for the admins that actually run this place, and there's little to no guarantee they'd even see this post, whereas an email to them would get seen by them. If the admins dig deeply enough through comments inside threads to rate limit me, surely they will see a top-level thread. And indeed: They saw the thread and replied. (dang is their name) > If you believe your phone is going to ring all day because you have an email address, I'm not sure anyone here can help you. You may need a refresher on how phones work. You skipped over the part where I said that nowadays it is impossible to get an email account without telling the provider your phone number. They all want your phone number nowadays, they demand it during registration.
ljf 4y ago
If you look back at the GPs comments you can see some that were flagged/closed recently, a few that were downvoted and also a good number of threads that turned into meta threads with others posters that get downvoted. So looks like someone who has been targeted for limiting or additional moderation.
- RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 4y ago
  Can you please tell me what the the "good number" is you're talking about? I do not have time to regurgitate my own history, but I scrolled over it once and it does not seem as controversial as you're portraying it here. E.g. I only see one flagged comment, how is that "some"?
  - ljf 4y ago
    You have 600 or so comments here so I only scrolled a 10ish pages, but I spotted at least one of your comments downvoted to the point of being grey, on each page. Sometimes more. That is pretty high, plus the recent flagged post. And now this thread has been flagged. Plus the meta threads. Pick a random user, check out their comments and see how many of their posts are greyed out, for a comparison. Have you made side accounts? That is another thing that seems to get people blocked or limited. As other say, don't take it personally, and don't stress - there is more to life than hn!

RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 4y ago

> The exact rate limit, to my understanding, is tuned by the moderators. So one of them presumably thought you were making some inflammatory comments and made a conscious choice to slow you down. I have read my comments before the timeout again multiple times before posting this thread here and IMHO they are just stating facts about software, not much of making an opinion about the facts themselves. I had intentionally left room for other commenters to have their own opinion. Quote: "As with all things in life, a golden rule applies: If you don't like it then don't use it, that's ok!" > Reach out to hn@ycombinator.com to find out more and make an appeal. Uhm, are you actually a human who has read my thread or are you some kind of chat AI? Because the first line literally says: "Some suggest emailing HN, but I do not have an email address anymore (because they all want phone numbers nowadays)." Anyway, considering the large number of upvotes this Ask HN has gained, seems more people in the community are interested in clarity. Considering the search function also does not yield clarity it would probably be beneficial for the moderation team and overall peace to make things more clear here?

ddevault 4y ago
"I do not have an email address" is not a reasonable state of being. The way you can resolve this is via email, and you should obtain one.
- RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 4y ago
  I'm not going to hand out my phone number to internet services, I get enough phone spam already. Sorry :)
  - zamnos 4y ago
    You should be apologizing to yourself. This stance, which I'm sure you see as reasonable (it's not), is directly causing you a problem, a problem that you're here asking for help to resolve (but it's already been flagged). You're free not to get an email address, but you're also the one rate limited to 5/day, so it seems the ball is in your court. The idiom that comes to mind is "cutting off your nose to spite your face."
    - RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 4y ago
      I'm sorry, I posted some questions about Hackernews, on Hackernews. I do not see how I should suddenly become customer to some unrelated external services which could literally cause my phone to ring all day just in order to be entitled to ask some questions? It seems you're escalating the tone here, which I do not intend to participate in.
      - zamnos 4y ago
        But these aren't questions for the community, these are questions for the admins that actually run this place, and there's little to no guarantee they'd even see this post, whereas an email to them would get seen by them. Everyone else here has about as much power as you do to change your account to allow you to comment more. If you believe your phone is going to ring all day because you have an email address, I'm not sure anyone here can help you. You may need a refresher on how phones work.
        RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 4y ago
        > But these aren't questions for the community, The answers to the questions are of interest to the community so why not have them see them? :) > these are questions for the admins that actually run this place, and there's little to no guarantee they'd even see this post, whereas an email to them would get seen by them. If the admins dig deeply enough through comments inside threads to rate limit me, surely they will see a top-level thread. And indeed: They saw the thread and replied. (dang is their name) > If you believe your phone is going to ring all day because you have an email address, I'm not sure anyone here can help you. You may need a refresher on how phones work. You skipped over the part where I said that nowadays it is impossible to get an email account without telling the provider your phone number. They all want your phone number nowadays, they demand it during registration.

ljf 4y ago

If you look back at the GPs comments you can see some that were flagged/closed recently, a few that were downvoted and also a good number of threads that turned into meta threads with others posters that get downvoted. So looks like someone who has been targeted for limiting or additional moderation.

RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm 4y ago
Can you please tell me what the the "good number" is you're talking about? I do not have time to regurgitate my own history, but I scrolled over it once and it does not seem as controversial as you're portraying it here. E.g. I only see one flagged comment, how is that "some"?
- ljf 4y ago
  You have 600 or so comments here so I only scrolled a 10ish pages, but I spotted at least one of your comments downvoted to the point of being grey, on each page. Sometimes more. That is pretty high, plus the recent flagged post. And now this thread has been flagged. Plus the meta threads. Pick a random user, check out their comments and see how many of their posts are greyed out, for a comparison. Have you made side accounts? That is another thing that seems to get people blocked or limited. As other say, don't take it personally, and don't stress - there is more to life than hn!