Overall, I’ve updated that it’s too confusing to have any rate limits that restrict commenters’ ability to comment on their own posts. (There are 8 rules that create commenting rate limits, and previously only 2 of them rate limited you on your own posts). I personally think the 2 rules were reasonable, but I think they’ve mostly resulted in people forming inaccurate beliefs about how the rate limit system works. (i.e. they don’t realize it’s a rare exception for rate limiting to affect your own posts)
So, I’ve just shipped a code-update that makes it so there are now 0 ways to get rate limited on your own posts. (Well, one exception for the universal “you can’t comment more than ‘every 8 seconds’” rule, but that’s a pretty different rule)
Two:
I do basically think it’s correct for you to have been rate limited, for the reasons John/Shminux and others have described. You argued poorly about a topic that we’ve covered a lot, in a fairly inflammatory way. This is precisely what the rate limits are there to nudge people away from.
I do think that people get more downvoted on some kinds of tribally-loaded topics, and I wish that were different. I’ve tried to tune the rate limits so that they do correctly rate-limit-people when they make bad arguments and get downvoted, but don’t excessively rate limit people when they get “excessively tribally downvoted”. I’m not sure if I’ve exactly succeeded at this, but I’ve been tracking the rate limits that get applied over the past month and I think mostly endorsed how things shook out.
Three:
More positively: fwiw, I have felt like your other recent posts seem like your doing a fairly reasonable thought process, given your current epistemic state / skills. (This is based on a cursory glance rather than reading them in detail, I don’t know that I think all your mental motions make sense, but, like, it looks like you’re trying to think through and argue about various object-level issues in a way that seems healthy)
Some thoughts:
First:
Overall, I’ve updated that it’s too confusing to have any rate limits that restrict commenters’ ability to comment on their own posts. (There are 8 rules that create commenting rate limits, and previously only 2 of them rate limited you on your own posts). I personally think the 2 rules were reasonable, but I think they’ve mostly resulted in people forming inaccurate beliefs about how the rate limit system works. (i.e. they don’t realize it’s a rare exception for rate limiting to affect your own posts)
So, I’ve just shipped a code-update that makes it so there are now 0 ways to get rate limited on your own posts. (Well, one exception for the universal “you can’t comment more than ‘every 8 seconds’” rule, but that’s a pretty different rule)
Two:
I do basically think it’s correct for you to have been rate limited, for the reasons John/Shminux and others have described. You argued poorly about a topic that we’ve covered a lot, in a fairly inflammatory way. This is precisely what the rate limits are there to nudge people away from.
I do think that people get more downvoted on some kinds of tribally-loaded topics, and I wish that were different. I’ve tried to tune the rate limits so that they do correctly rate-limit-people when they make bad arguments and get downvoted, but don’t excessively rate limit people when they get “excessively tribally downvoted”. I’m not sure if I’ve exactly succeeded at this, but I’ve been tracking the rate limits that get applied over the past month and I think mostly endorsed how things shook out.
Three:
More positively: fwiw, I have felt like your other recent posts seem like your doing a fairly reasonable thought process, given your current epistemic state / skills. (This is based on a cursory glance rather than reading them in detail, I don’t know that I think all your mental motions make sense, but, like, it looks like you’re trying to think through and argue about various object-level issues in a way that seems healthy)