[mulligan]

there's a difference between rate limiting the amount of posts you make (to avoid spam) and rate limiting the amount of posts you read

[foderking]

not really. rate limiting is rate limiting. Its done to prevent abuse whether in the form of spam or unauthorised scraping

[slikrick]

yes really. rate limiting reading to average users is completely different than rate limiting writing. the average user doesn't post, so it's already impacting a completely different demographic

[PeterCorless]

Exactly.