[frik]

As always you distract from the discussion. What I wrote is 100% true. Rate-limiting is a shady thing here on HackerNews.

I am now documenting a last time what moderation tactics are going on here...

With rate-limiting it means your account gets so much worse:

  * lowered the comment start-ranked to below normal
  * news & comment votes are not counted at all, but only showed to oneself (fake increase)
  * rate-limited writing comments and submit news (only 2 comment or 1 news submission per 6 hours)

It is very shady that this isn't documented or allowed to discuss at all. It seems to be an between state, only slightly worse is the also shady "shadow ban", which features exactly the same symptoms but also hides the comment for public users - users can opt-in to see "dead" comments (via the user settings).

You/your employee rate-limited my account, and a few weeks ago your employee shadow banned my account for a slightly not adhering to the guideline comment. If stepping 3 times slightly beside the guidelines (that are a moving target, an interpreted subjectively) is "serially for years" something is wrong on the other side, I am sure.

I have a good history of comments, the guy who rate-limited my account showed my account the middle finger. And there is no way to get a normal account status again.

What a pitty that Paul PG Graham left, and it turned so much worse since then. I am done with writing comments here, I am sure there are other better websites around, I am leaving the sinking ship.