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It's a filter the moderators add to your account when they deem you a low-quality / troublemaking poster. It limits you to a few (probably four) comments per hour. They won't tell you when it was applied or why. It's also permanent unless/until you ask forgiveness for your behavior and they decide to remove it.

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Post by Cupertino95014 » Fri, Oct 18, 2024, 1:46 AM UTC

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #3

paulpauper wrote: post #2

email him here: hn@ycombinator.com

^ This is how to get ahold of dang. Dang has also stated many times that `@dang` is a no-op, I don't know why people keep using it.

Possibly that they didn't see any of those statements?

Re: undefined

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Post by krapp » Fri, Oct 18, 2024, 2:13 AM UTC

Cupertino95014 wrote: post #6

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

^ This is how to get ahold of dang. Dang has also stated many times that `@dang` is a no-op, I don't know why people keep using it.

Possibly that they didn't see any of those statements?

It's a Twitter idiom. Why would anyone expect it to work here, of all places?

Re: undefined

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Post by Cupertino95014 » Fri, Oct 18, 2024, 2:17 AM UTC

krapp wrote: post #7

Cupertino95014 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Possibly that they didn't see any of those statements?

It's a Twitter idiom. Why would anyone expect it to work here, of all places?

wowfunhappy said, "I don't know why people keep using it."

so maybe it's an idiom that's spread beyond Twitter.