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>>tonmoy+(OP)
While you are there, go through dang’s comments timeline https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang

Moderating something like HN is a very hard job. Gratitude .

>>ajonit+wb
I understand why but I don’t like how people are individually rate limited silently without their knowledge. It is certainly immoral

EDIT: unfortunately I cannot defend my point in the comments, as I am now rate limited :)

EDIT 2: /u/Dylan16807 yes I'm seeing that. When I try and post it says "you are posting too quickly, please slow down"

>>bowsam+Fg
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.

>>whimsi+xh
> 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.

>>bowsam+ej
> 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.

>>whimsi+7k
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

>>bowsam+Xn
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 :)