[sparkie]

I've been rate limited since around 2018 to 5 posts per 3 hours. This was manually set by a mod.

[tediousdemise]

Same here. I think it actually improved my mental health because I can only post 5 comments a day.

I also feel like this limitation gives my comments a lot more weight, so it challenges me to really make a quality comment if I can help it.

Maybe it should be a default for everyone, although some keyboard warriors would probably get tilted.

[dang]

It's easy enough to get un-rate-limited. Just build up a track record of making substantive, curious contributions—that is, of using HN as intended—and then ask us at [e-mail]. It's not as if we're unresponsive (although the inbox does have poor worst-case latency).

Actually we often take rate limits off accounts without being asked. It's a matter of looking through the history and seeing if the account has stopped taking threads further into flamewar and/or is no longer making a habit of unsubstantive comments.

[SilasX]

Wait how do you know it was manually set? I’ve been throttled under a pattern like that for the past few months I think.

[ipaddr]

Make another account if it matters.

[ratg13]

Somewhere in that range is likely the limit for most people.

This is a good thing.