[tomhow]

> Blocked from being able to post new comments by HN because I am getting heavily downvoted for posting inconvenient facts

This is not how HN works. Rate-limiting only happens when an account posts high volumes of comments that break the guidelines. It's nothing to do with downvotes or the political/idological flavor of what you post (we don't care and often don't know; all we care about is whether you're filling up threads with guideline-breaking comments, which is what ruins threads).

If you want rate-limiting turned off you can email us at [e-mail] and we can discuss it.

[immibis]

This can't be correct, since the system can't detect when comments break the guidelines. It's either based on flags or downvotes, or perhaps just total number of comments. It's definitely not based on karma, since I'm rate-limited.

Another possibility is that it triggers when a moderator gets pissed at a single one of your comments.

[tomhow]

I'm late coming back to this, but for the record:

The rate-limiter is applied manually when we notice that an account is posting a high volume of guidelines-breaking comments. The way we notice is by reading the threads, which we spend much of each day doing, or when we're alerted to guidelines-breaking comments by flags or by community members emailing us.