On: An Update on Hacker News

[facepalm]

slowbanning is a thing, I remember an official announcement about it. Of course my memory might be fallible.

[dllthomas → facepalm]

Like I said, that's my impression. I'm just saying the differential alone doesn't show it. A tiny differential is expected. A large differential shows either a slowban or poor engineering.

[michaelochurch → dllthomas]

Mine are more than an order of magnitude. If I recall correctly, numbers were around 200 ms in incognito mode and 10+ seconds when logged in.

[dllthomas → michaelochurch]

So either they've slowbanned you, or they're doing something O(n^3) with your long comment history...

The first is certainly more likely for a host of reasons.