It’s the only recent comment of mine that went fairly negative, and free internet advocates are pretty militant. It’s not rocket science to make the inference.
Edit: it looks like that rate limit was put on your account several years ago. I didn't look up what was going on at the time, but I've taken it off now.
(In the future, I think we'll probably make penalties like this expire after a while - the problem is it's not so easy to tell which accounts are still breaking the site guidelines vs. which ones are fine, short of manual review, and we don't have much capacity for more manual review. In the meantime, anyone is welcome to ask what's going on with their account and we'll always take a look and answer; and when it seems safe to remove a penalty like this, we always do.)
with all due respect, this sort of response and tone is exactly why that kind of throttling exists:
>Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
>Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
I commented in response because a comment downstream from what you linked felt much more caustic and may have been a bigger suspect than the first one. But by the nature of threaded comments, you will see less participation in a deeper comment. And I'm sure HN accounts for that. (-10 on a top level comment that was the first comment on the page may not be as bad as -1 on a deep comment).
If the repo is correct, these features are made to throttle comments that can cause flame wars. So, food for thought. A lot of times it's less about what you say and how you say it.
> with all due respect, this sort of response and tone is exactly why that kind of throttling exists:
> > don't cross-examine
Something about a mirror. Or: do you think you deserve aggressive throttling now?
Honestly, some of my comments might jive less with HN’s echo chamber, but that doesn’t mean they’re not based in fact, and it doesn’t make them inciting.
Edit:
I’m trying to practice taking complaints as actionable feedback, so
> So, food for thought. A lot of times it's less about what you say and how you say it.
I feel like this isn't getting through to you, but I wanted to at least try and reach out. Feedback is important, but I can't force people to take it to heart.
One more guideline to keep in mind:
>Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
going around calling the community you comment in an echo chamber in order to justify your views never changed anyone's minds. And insulting others as a group nor individual doesn't make your factual statements stronger to begin with. It's the same useless fluff you complain about. If your audience truly doesn't appreciate your views, you should seek one that does.
I was on the fence sending the last comment. But if the user is instead going to try and make it all about me.
, I wanted to send one last comment to try and emphasize the community aspect of how the rules work. I'm a bit neurodivergent, so I do want to assume good faith whenever someone feels like they can't understand the rules and needs an explicit pointing to what and why something is there.
But yes, we're doing the very thing the rules were meant to prevent, my apologies.
