| I have noticed many of those too. > their posts are rate limited I don't like this one... if your comments are shadow banned or automatically hidden.. what's the point... There's also a lot of editing going on, but most of the time, they let you know what was edited, which is nice, thanks. When a "veteran" user flags a post, it apparently also gets a LOT of weight from what I heard... It might be why in some cases a post with a lot of momentum quickly falls off from the front page. There's probably other reasons too. I know that if a user has multiple accounts, they also somehow connect them together to the same person (not sure if it is automatic). They connected multiple of my account but not all... Dang confirmed it (I try to increase privacy by switching account once in a while) When you get 500 karma, you can down-vote... |
The point is to prevent your continued participation in the community from doing more harm or, in the case of filters like rate limiting, to frustrate you until you leave or apologize and ask for the filter to be removed.