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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by oauea on Monday April 25, 2022 @05:33PM (#31160949)
My HN account is rate limited by @dang, if I post more than an unspecified amount of comments in an unspecified time frame I get a message telling me to go away.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by nixgeek on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @07:18PM (#31174371)
Looking at your comment history it’s not clear how many truly add value to the discourse on HN, they’re often “throwaway snipes” at things like Apple and macOS.

It’s possible if you worked to change that and then emailed dang again they’d revisit the comment rate-limiting?

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by oauea on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @05:51PM (#31186257)
Meh, every time I get into an actual substantial discussion I get rate limited and the conversation has moved on before I get to respond. I'll admit that since the rate limit I haven't bothered to post high value comments, because if I get interesting replies I won't even get to respond back. I'll just make a new account at some point.
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by ant6n on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @07:57AM (#31166384)
Isn’t everybody getting that?
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by oauea on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @08:54AM (#31166862)
No, I emailed dang and he confirmed my account was rate limited to prevent "flame wars". I get to make about 3 comments every few hours it seems.