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0 pointsRjQoLCOSwiIKfpm3y ago0 comments

> I'm starting to see the absurdity of this post.

It certainly is absurd to ask some simple questions which could be answered numerically for the most of them ... and then people go into some kind of field day to judge my character based on digging through 10s (!!!) of my comment history pages of 600 comments (someone said that number here, I didn't even know, did they write a script to compute it?), to judge my "emotional investment", and to judge me for not wanting to hand out my phone number to email providers, and finally they block my post by "flagging" it so it won't be seen by the moderation team and won't get an actual answer.

It could have been as simple as telling me "The limit is N posts per M minutes", but no, we must have some kind of public character execution instead.

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ljf3y ago· 2 in thread

To find out anyone's posts count just tap on their name and then the 'comments' link - here you go:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=RjQoLCOSwiIKfpm

You asked why you were limited, I wanted to provide some opinion as you didn't seem to be aware of any reason that you might be.

RjQoLCOSwiIKfpmOP3y ago

Thanks.

For context, here is your original comment:

> If you look back at the GPs comments you can see some that were flagged/closed recently, a few that were downvoted and also a good number of threads that turned into meta threads with others posters that get downvoted. So looks like someone who has been targeted for limiting or additional moderation.

Talking about me in the 3rd person in a subthread (I am here, would you talk about someone in the 3rd person if they are in the same room standing next to you?), to purport vague, unproven statements, which IMHO are exaggerated, and which imply that I'd be someone who "had it coming" is not really "providing" something here, at least not providing help IMHO.

It's rather feels like condescending gossip and badmouthing to me.

I was asking for the numerical limits, not judgement of my character.

But to be honest, I am appalled by the attitude of the comments in this thread as a whole, so take what I say to you personally with a grain of salt, it is biased by the condescending behavior of the other people in here.

ljf3y ago

Re the third person: I was replying in a sub thread, providing extra context to the thread of the person that replied to you, and therefore was talking to them. Sorry if that offended you, I had initially assumed that due to your block you wouldn't actually be able to comment on this thread, but that proved to be incorrect.

Also in your post here you asked:

"And 5 comments in a single day does seem reasonable, why did I get a timeout anyway?"

I responded to your question of 'why did I get a timeout anyway', and took the time to have a quick look for why you might have been limited, as I've seen here people often don't notice if they had been downvoted or even if DanG has asked them to stop doing a certain thing.

I have 'showbanned' on as an option, so I see the posts of people that have been shaddowbanned - I will often vouch for their posts if they've said something of interest, but usually will look back a little in their history to get an idea of why they were banned. I was about to vouch for a person the other day but a very swift look showed that DanG had blocked them for posting far right and anti gay comments, so even though that post was good, I declined to vouch for it. So having a look at a commenters other posts is normal to me, and I wasn't singling you out - I wouldn't have bothered if you hadn't asked the question I refer to, and to be honest I assumed I'd be helping by highlighting context you seemed unaware of.

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