[PaulHoule]

Note I got throttled too because I got voted down for my comment.

It's frustrating, but it is a good thing.

The core way billionaires control our discourse is through spamming the agenda with junk. If we are always talking about why billionaires shouldn't be taxed (abortion, white privilege, lame woke people, ...) we aren't talking about everything else.

Rate limiting answers that. It's OK to talk about those subjects, it just shouldn't be more than 5% of the discussion or so. If things are too heated, people should get slowed down.

I've noticed that I'm more likely to get rate limited after I flag something. That makes me feel like flags are a limited resource so I use them wisely.

[dang]

We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments too quickly and/or get involved in flamewars. It's not affected by downvotes or flags.

We're happy to take the rate limit off (and often do so) when people give us reason to believe that they'll use the site as intended in the future. Emailing [e-mail] is the best way to do that.