Comment throttling seems to catch people offguard somewhat often. I suspect this is because the criteria are imperfect, but also because it’s a VERY sharp change from “unlimited” to “quite small”.
Perhaps there should be a default throttle of 5 or 8 comments per day. And this throttle tightens with net downvotes. Maybe increase it with recent net upvotes, or maybe only by an explicit exception request with an explanation of why one wants to make more than that in a day.
edit: oh, better—do away with the daily granularity. Everyone has a leaky-bucket throttle, with say 4 comments max available, which replenish one every 2 hours. If your recent karma average is low, the replenishment slows down. If your recent karma is high, the replenishment speeds up. the bucket size could go up for posters with significant semi-recent upvotes.
Comment throttling seems to catch people offguard somewhat often. I suspect this is because the criteria are imperfect, but also because it’s a VERY sharp change from “unlimited” to “quite small”.
Perhaps there should be a default throttle of 5 or 8 comments per day. And this throttle tightens with net downvotes. Maybe increase it with recent net upvotes, or maybe only by an explicit exception request with an explanation of why one wants to make more than that in a day.
edit: oh, better—do away with the daily granularity. Everyone has a leaky-bucket throttle, with say 4 comments max available, which replenish one every 2 hours. If your recent karma average is low, the replenishment slows down. If your recent karma is high, the replenishment speeds up. the bucket size could go up for posters with significant semi-recent upvotes.