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by whimsicalism 1036 days ago
When I was rate-limited, I found it quite easy to find out what happened after a little bit of googling and get it reversed with a nicely worded email. It doesn't take a genius to figure out why you can't really post after a reply from dang.

Nonetheless, I agree they could be a bit more explicit about this.
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bowsamic 1036 days ago
> It doesn't take a genius to figure out why you can't really post after a reply from dang.

Well actually it does because you're wrong about this, it isn't about him replying to you, he manually sets a flag on your account.

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whimsicalism 1036 days ago
> Well actually it does because you're wrong about this, it isn't about him replying to you, he manually sets a flag on your account.

Right, but in my experience, this usually occurs after a reply.

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krapp 1036 days ago
Unfortunately, that reply can sometimes be days, weeks or who knows how old, and HN doesn't inform you of replies to your comments, so unless you happen to see it when it happens you're stuck with having to intuit that "you're replying too fast" is an extremely passive aggressive flag on your account and not just a general site-wide rate limiter. Or notice that your flags no longer work, or your vouches no longer work, or any number of even more subtle effects.
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dabluecaboose 1036 days ago
>Or notice that your flags no longer work, or your vouches no longer work, or any number of even more subtle effects.

Wait, I'm now wondering if I've been limited. I've never once seen the "Vouch" button and I've flagged some blatant stuff that nothing happened to, but figured there was somewhat of a vote (or multiple flags) before it took any effect. Can anyone confirm this behavior?

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dang 1036 days ago
Your account is fine.
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dabluecaboose 1036 days ago
Thank you for the confirmation, dang! Big fan of the job you do around here.
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bowsamic 1036 days ago
You said it doesn't take a genius to work it out but you haven't worked it out. It's opaque other than that we know it's a flag that can be manually set on the user without their knowledge
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whimsicalism 1036 days ago
I worked out that I had been flagged. I was not saying that dang replying was the mechanism, you are just (intentionally?) misinterpreting what I am saying. That dang replies to you is an indicator that he has flagged you.

Not going to keep replying, as I suspect that a conversation between two people flagged in this manner is one of the likeliest to turn flame-y :)

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