How technically troublesome would an allow list be?
Maybe the default is everyone gets three comments on a post. People the author has banned get zero, people the author has opted in for get unlimited, the author automatically gets unlimited comments on their own post, mods automatically get unlimited comments.
(Or if this feels more like a Said and/or Duncan specific issue, make the options “Unlimited”, “Limited”, and “None/Banned” then default to everyone at Unlimited except for Said and/or Duncan at Limited.)
How technically troublesome would an allow list be?
Maybe the default is everyone gets three comments on a post. People the author has banned get zero, people the author has opted in for get unlimited, the author automatically gets unlimited comments on their own post, mods automatically get unlimited comments.
(Or if this feels more like a Said and/or Duncan specific issue, make the options “Unlimited”, “Limited”, and “None/Banned” then default to everyone at Unlimited except for Said and/or Duncan at Limited.)