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446 points tonmoy | 7 comments | 24 Aug 23 16:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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ajonit ◴[24 Aug 23 17:06 UTC] No.37251548[source]▶
While you are there, go through dang’s comments timeline https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang

Moderating something like HN is a very hard job. Gratitude .

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bowsamic ◴[24 Aug 23 17:26 UTC] No.37251867[source]▶
I understand why but I don’t like how people are individually rate limited silently without their knowledge. It is certainly immoral

EDIT: unfortunately I cannot defend my point in the comments, as I am now rate limited :)

EDIT 2: /u/Dylan16807 yes I'm seeing that. When I try and post it says "you are posting too quickly, please slow down"

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whimsicalism ◴[24 Aug 23 17:30 UTC] No.37251921[source]▶
When I was rate-limited, I found it quite easy to find out what happened after a little bit of googling and get it reversed with a nicely worded email. It doesn't take a genius to figure out why you can't really post after a reply from dang.

Nonetheless, I agree they could be a bit more explicit about this.

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bowsamic ◴[24 Aug 23 17:36 UTC] No.37252026[source]▶
> It doesn't take a genius to figure out why you can't really post after a reply from dang.

Well actually it does because you're wrong about this, it isn't about him replying to you, he manually sets a flag on your account.

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1. whimsicalism ◴[24 Aug 23 17:39 UTC] No.37252081[source]▶
> Well actually it does because you're wrong about this, it isn't about him replying to you, he manually sets a flag on your account.

Right, but in my experience, this usually occurs after a reply.

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2. bowsamic ◴[24 Aug 23 17:54 UTC] No.37252319[source]▶
You said it doesn't take a genius to work it out but you haven't worked it out. It's opaque other than that we know it's a flag that can be manually set on the user without their knowledge
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3. whimsicalism ◴[24 Aug 23 17:57 UTC] No.37252359[source]▶
I worked out that I had been flagged. I was not saying that dang replying was the mechanism, you are just (intentionally?) misinterpreting what I am saying. That dang replies to you is an indicator that he has flagged you.

Not going to keep replying, as I suspect that a conversation between two people flagged in this manner is one of the likeliest to turn flame-y :)

4. krapp ◴[24 Aug 23 18:01 UTC] No.37252410[source]▶
Unfortunately, that reply can sometimes be days, weeks or who knows how old, and HN doesn't inform you of replies to your comments, so unless you happen to see it when it happens you're stuck with having to intuit that "you're replying too fast" is an extremely passive aggressive flag on your account and not just a general site-wide rate limiter. Or notice that your flags no longer work, or your vouches no longer work, or any number of even more subtle effects.
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5. dabluecaboose ◴[24 Aug 23 18:24 UTC] No.37252697[source]▶
>Or notice that your flags no longer work, or your vouches no longer work, or any number of even more subtle effects.

Wait, I'm now wondering if I've been limited. I've never once seen the "Vouch" button and I've flagged some blatant stuff that nothing happened to, but figured there was somewhat of a vote (or multiple flags) before it took any effect. Can anyone confirm this behavior?

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6. dang ◴[24 Aug 23 18:31 UTC] No.37252788{3}[source]▶
Your account is fine.
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7. dabluecaboose ◴[24 Aug 23 18:32 UTC] No.37252805{4}[source]▶
Thank you for the confirmation, dang! Big fan of the job you do around here.