Almost every comment rate limit stricter than “once per hour” is in fact conditional in some way on the user’s karma
That’s a heck of an “almost”, given that it excludes the specific example that we are in fact discussing…
I think you could make an argument that being rate limited to one comment per day is too strict given its conditions
I definitely think so.
A substantial design motivation behind the rate limits, beyond throttling newer users who haven’t yet learned the ropes, was to reduce the incidence and blast radius of demon threads.
I’d just like to register my strong objection to the very concept of “demon threads”. I consider it to be both misleading descriptively and detrimental to understanding forum dynamics and to building good discussion environments.
That’s a heck of an “almost”, given that it excludes the specific example that we are in fact discussing…
I definitely think so.
I’d just like to register my strong objection to the very concept of “demon threads”. I consider it to be both misleading descriptively and detrimental to understanding forum dynamics and to building good discussion environments.