ETA: After attempting to post this comment last night, I received a message informing me that I would not be able to do so until some hours in the then-future. This answers the crossed-out question above, I suppose. Unfortunately, it also makes the asides about wanting to know what I think on this topic… well, somewhat farcical, quite frankly.
Aww christ I am very sorry about this. I had planned to ship the “posts can be manually overridden to ignore rate limiting” feature first thing this morning and apply it to this post, but I forgot that you’d still have made some comments less than a week ago which would block you for awhile. I agree that was a really terrible experience and I should have noticed it.
The feature is getting deployed now and will probably be live within a half hour.
For now, I’m manually applying the “ignore rate limit” flag to posts that seem relevant. (I’ll likely do a migration backfill on all posts by admins that are tagged “Site Meta”. I haven’t made a call yet about Open Threads)
I think some of your questions are answered in the previous comment:
Meanwhile some additional features I haven’t shipped yet, which I can’t make promises about, but which I personally think would be good to ship soon include:
[ETA: should be live soon] There’s at least a boolean flag for individual posts so authors can allow “rate limited people can comment freely”, and probably also a user-setting for this. Another possibility is a user-specific whitelist, but that’s a bit more complicated and I’m not sure if there’s anyone who would want that who wouldn’t want the simpler option.
I’d ideally have this flag set on this post, and probably on other moderation posts written by admins.
Rate-limited users in a given comment section have a small icon that lets you know they’re rate-limited, so you have reasonable expectations of when they can reply.
Updating the /moderation page to list rate limited users, ideally with some kind of reason / moderation-warning.
Updating rate limits to ensure that users can comment as much as they want on their own posts (we made a PR for this change a week ago and haven’t shipped it yet largely because this moderation decision took a lot of time)
I’ll write a more thorough response after we’ve finished deploying the “ignoreRateLimits flag for posts” PR.
Aww christ I am very sorry about this. I had planned to ship the “posts can be manually overridden to ignore rate limiting” feature first thing this morning and apply it to this post, but I forgot that you’d still have made some comments less than a week ago which would block you for awhile. I agree that was a really terrible experience and I should have noticed it.
The feature is getting deployed now and will probably be live within a half hour.
For now, I’m manually applying the “ignore rate limit” flag to posts that seem relevant. (I’ll likely do a migration backfill on all posts by admins that are tagged “Site Meta”. I haven’t made a call yet about Open Threads)
I think some of your questions are answered in the previous comment:
I’ll write a more thorough response after we’ve finished deploying the “ignoreRateLimits flag for posts” PR.
Site Meta posts contains a lot more moderation, so not sure we should do that.