A second order effect I’m a little worried about is rate limits create an incentive to mix threads.
If there are two people who make different points in comments and I want to respond to them, ordinarily I would reply to each of their comments and the discussion stays organized. If I’m rate limited and there are two people I want to respond to, maybe I write both replies in a single comment under one of them and mention the other.
One answer to that is asking people not to do that. One answer is eh, it’s not that bad, sometimes that kind of mixing happens even without rate limits and it’s fine. Another might be doing word count limits instead of comment limits.
I don’t think this is a big issue. I did think it was worth mentioning while you were looking for feedback.
A second order effect I’m a little worried about is rate limits create an incentive to mix threads.
If there are two people who make different points in comments and I want to respond to them, ordinarily I would reply to each of their comments and the discussion stays organized. If I’m rate limited and there are two people I want to respond to, maybe I write both replies in a single comment under one of them and mention the other.
One answer to that is asking people not to do that. One answer is eh, it’s not that bad, sometimes that kind of mixing happens even without rate limits and it’s fine. Another might be doing word count limits instead of comment limits.
I don’t think this is a big issue. I did think it was worth mentioning while you were looking for feedback.