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by Lockyy 5149 days ago
Potentially because you got down-voted a tonne and are on the verge of being hell-banned.

Test this by logging out and see if it loads quickly again. If so, then yeah, you're being artificially slowed down.

Edit: I actually just noticed it was slow for me too, logged out and it was still slow. No idea then.
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eagsalazar 5149 days ago
lol. Well good theory otherwise!

Edit: Actually I just realized your theory never really made any sense. What site throttles bandwidth just to you when you get downvoted? Nutty theory actually.

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Lockyy 5149 days ago
It's not nutty, it's what hacker news does.

After getting down-voted a certain amount you get hell-banned. Your posts are still posted, except only people with "show dead" enabled see them.

Before that however you just get throttled and the site loads more slowly.

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DanBC 5149 days ago
I have no idea if this is what is happening to you, but see SlowBan on this page:

(http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/suspension-ban-or-h...)

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