> You should not be employed in this industry if what you wrote here is how you think, period.
That seems pretty personal. Not that I'm hopping on dang's bandwagon, but you can't post that sort of attack and say you're not doing anything like that.
I've wound up seeing a lot of your recent posts and I can understand where a lot of your responders are coming from... you are very strongly opinionated and have no problem crossing the line from "I hold this opinion" to "you're wrong for not agreeing and therefore you <insert consequence>".
THAT's the behavior that's getting you the pushback. Be more open to discussing things and comparing experiences and maybe you'll see more cordial response back.
It's not a personal attack, it's my opinion. I've worked with people who think that way, and I'd prefer if they didn't exist in the industry. How would you prefer I shape that comment so it's not crossing some magical line?
I am aware, generally, how things are. My complaining here is not confusion, it's frustration. I know I can change my behavior to elicit a better response, but I'm frustrated that it's relevant. People should have thicker skin, and when people dish it out (as what was going on here), I should be allowed to give it back. Dang's not commenting on anyone else's posts here, though there were many other rule violators.
It's an unfair application of the rules.
Edit: This post is 0 minutes old, how does it have a downvote already? This is the shit I'm talking about...
You know moderation is at an IP level, we've had multiple discussions about it, and I'm clearly still getting hit with the rate limit, so when you say "to work around restrictions" it's obviously disingenuous on your part. Someone/multiple people are auto-downvoting everything I comment on with my other account, so I switched to see if it kept happening. Unsurprisingly, it didn't until I mentioned it again, and it started up immediately after.
As for the other comment you made (can't reply directly, rate limit), it isn't a low information post, I'm showing a screenshot of the message I get when I hit the rate limit.
You're literally gas lighting right now, it's insane.
You also know if you actually do anything else beyond rate limiting I'll just go dark, which is even "worse" for you, so this so-called "leniency" is nonsense. Just stop.
Edit: You can't use multiple accounts to get around rate limits, as you and I have discussed multiple times, so I'm not "doing" anything that constitutes a ban, but feel free to ban at your leisure. Over the years you've established yourself firmly as an unreasonable person, so there's no point trying to treat you like one.
I'm afraid I don't really follow what you've written here.
Rate limits are meaningless if people can just use multiple accounts to get around them. If you keep doing that, we're going to have to ban at least one of your accounts—but more likely all of them. After several years of trying to persuade you to use HN as intended, I'm beginning to lose patience.
That seems pretty personal. Not that I'm hopping on dang's bandwagon, but you can't post that sort of attack and say you're not doing anything like that.
I've wound up seeing a lot of your recent posts and I can understand where a lot of your responders are coming from... you are very strongly opinionated and have no problem crossing the line from "I hold this opinion" to "you're wrong for not agreeing and therefore you <insert consequence>".
THAT's the behavior that's getting you the pushback. Be more open to discussing things and comparing experiences and maybe you'll see more cordial response back.