https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46535363

I don't understand why new accounts, heavily downvoted and flagged, have higher higher quotas for post rate-limiting than well-reputed commenters.

I suspect the rate limit takes into account normal activity, as an anti-bait mechanism. (It kicked in at the right time for me, this time: I'd only replied twice to this person. However, it is generally annoying.)

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