Re:Hacker News Guidelines
by dang on Saturday August 26, 2023 @02:22PM
(#37275451)
We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments and/or get involved in flamewars. Your account has done that a lot and we've had to warn you for a long time:
We're happy to take the rate limit off once we have reason to believe that an account is using HN in the intended spirit and will keep doing so. Unfortunately your account is still breaking the site guidelines badly. You posted several instances of nationalistic flamebait just today:
In fact your account breaks the guidelines so frequently that it's past the line at which we'd ban an account, not just rate-limit it. I'm not going to ban you right now because it wouldn't feel fair to do that in response to a question about being rate-limited. But if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on, we'd appreciate it.
If you build up a track record of using HN in the intended spirit for a while, you'd be welcome to email [email protected] and we'll be happy to take a look and hopefully remove the rate limit.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35921579 (May 2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769278 (Sept 2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30390204 (Feb 2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26185464 (Feb 2021)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20342064 (July 2019)
We're happy to take the rate limit off once we have reason to believe that an account is using HN in the intended spirit and will keep doing so. Unfortunately your account is still breaking the site guidelines badly. You posted several instances of nationalistic flamebait just today:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37273338
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37273246
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37273223
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37273200
and religious flamebait the day before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37259499.
You've also frequently been crossing into personal attack and name-calling:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37024609
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37024609
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37015883
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37015841
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37015814
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37015805
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37015781
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37005281
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36999963
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36943596
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36789253
In fact your account breaks the guidelines so frequently that it's past the line at which we'd ban an account, not just rate-limit it. I'm not going to ban you right now because it wouldn't feel fair to do that in response to a question about being rate-limited. But if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules from now on, we'd appreciate it.
If you build up a track record of using HN in the intended spirit for a while, you'd be welcome to email [email protected] and we'll be happy to take a look and hopefully remove the rate limit.