Indeed, that is true now, but the total was different when I posted the grandparent comment!
Here’s my suspicion, tell me if it’s right: the rate limit kicks in if the “recent karma” ever dips below the threshold, and then does not get withdrawn if the “recent karma” rises back up over the threshold. True?
I don’t think so. The code to display rate limit warnings gets run anew every time the page loads, and the final check whether a user is allowed to post gets run on comment submission, querying their last 20 comments, with no intermediate caching as far as I can tell:
Indeed, that is true now, but the total was different when I posted the grandparent comment!
Here’s my suspicion, tell me if it’s right: the rate limit kicks in if the “recent karma” ever dips below the threshold, and then does not get withdrawn if the “recent karma” rises back up over the threshold. True?
I don’t think so. The code to display rate limit warnings gets run anew every time the page loads, and the final check whether a user is allowed to post gets run on comment submission, querying their last 20 comments, with no intermediate caching as far as I can tell:
I see… well, this really just highlights the aforementioned fact that the UI for this stuff really needs work, which I guess you already know.