On the object-level of your particular case, I don’t see how you’ve ended up rate-limited. The post of yours that I think you’re talking about is currently at +214 karma, which makes it quite strange that your related comments are being rate-limited—I don’t understand how that algorithm works but I think that seems very odd. Is it counting downvotes but not upvotes, so that +300 and −100 works out to rate-limiting? That would be bizarre.
In the general case, however, I’m very much on board with rate-limiting people who are heavily net downvoted, and I think that referring to this as ‘censorship’ is misleading. When I block a spam caller, or decide not to invite someone who constantly starts loud angry political arguments to a dinner party, it seems very strange to say that I am ‘censoring’ them. I agree that this can lead to feedback loops that punish unpopular opinions, but that seems like a smaller cost than communities having to listen to every spammer/jerk who wants to rant at them.
(The algorithm aggregates karma over the last 20 comments or posts a user has written. Roko has written 20 comments since publishing that post, so it’s no longer in the averaging window.)
On the object-level of your particular case, I don’t see how you’ve ended up rate-limited. The post of yours that I think you’re talking about is currently at +214 karma, which makes it quite strange that your related comments are being rate-limited—I don’t understand how that algorithm works but I think that seems very odd. Is it counting downvotes but not upvotes, so that +300 and −100 works out to rate-limiting? That would be bizarre.
In the general case, however, I’m very much on board with rate-limiting people who are heavily net downvoted, and I think that referring to this as ‘censorship’ is misleading. When I block a spam caller, or decide not to invite someone who constantly starts loud angry political arguments to a dinner party, it seems very strange to say that I am ‘censoring’ them. I agree that this can lead to feedback loops that punish unpopular opinions, but that seems like a smaller cost than communities having to listen to every spammer/jerk who wants to rant at them.
(The algorithm aggregates karma over the last 20 comments or posts a user has written. Roko has written 20 comments since publishing that post, so it’s no longer in the averaging window.)