You can't prevent it. It's a knob only admins have access to and is not reflected on the site in any way other than as an obnoxious warning that you've noticed.
Maybe you enjoy being algorithmically told to behave but some adults don't. It needs to be a parameter that can be controlled by the user and not the admins.
Again with the declarative statements. This is a site owned by people who made choices you don't like. I get that. But, adults get told to moderate their behaviour in real life, and it's not always obnoxious. It's a debatable point. So far, you seem to me to be capable of needing to be told to back off. I know I need it too sometimes, I think it's quite adult to be able to take hints, even machine generated ones.
Your account has a six day life. Did it occur to you the algorithm looks for over eager new accounts, or did you make an alternate to get around some other barrier?
I am reminded of a very poignant monologue from Shawshank Redemption about men who have come to believe their impoverished existence is the only possible way they can continue living because of how long they have lived that way in an institution that was designed to forcefully modify their behavior.
You must have misunderstood my initial statement. I was not inviting debate but it seems that did not come across in the statement itself. I guess this is understandable given the impoverished online environment of HN and its non-transparent moderation rules/tactics. Hopefully that clears things up.
Point of fact, you commented on a forum. Expect debate.
But you're getting information, not debate. The forum works well. The rules are not a prison, they're a café. Don't like it, git. If you do like it, chill.
I enjoy other adults being told to behave when they aren't behaving. It's only happened to me once, when I was new to the site and wasn't respecting the site guidelines. It chafed a little, but I recognized the wisdom behind the system.
It doesn't need to be controlled by the individual poster, nobody owes you that. If you don't like it, you can go elsewhere. Among other things, HN benefits from rate-limiting, because it reduces the amount of garbage for mods to sift through.
It happens to me when I upvote and try to go to the newest page too soon (or other page). I guess the system detect two clicks that are too close, and raise an unnecessary warning.
Try contacting the mods hn@ycombinator.com . They may take a look and increase the global threshold a little.
I think this limitation might be set manually for your account. If you email a mod they should be able to explain and remove the limitation if you cooperate.
The most annoying restriction in this vein is the upvote + favorite in rapid succession. I do those actions in rapid succession all the time, and get the error of doing too many actions too quickly every time.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 57.4 ms ] threadYour account has a six day life. Did it occur to you the algorithm looks for over eager new accounts, or did you make an alternate to get around some other barrier?
You must have misunderstood my initial statement. I was not inviting debate but it seems that did not come across in the statement itself. I guess this is understandable given the impoverished online environment of HN and its non-transparent moderation rules/tactics. Hopefully that clears things up.
Point of fact, you commented on a forum. Expect debate.
But you're getting information, not debate. The forum works well. The rules are not a prison, they're a café. Don't like it, git. If you do like it, chill.
and yet, here you are.
It doesn't need to be controlled by the individual poster, nobody owes you that. If you don't like it, you can go elsewhere. Among other things, HN benefits from rate-limiting, because it reduces the amount of garbage for mods to sift through.
Try contacting the mods hn@ycombinator.com . They may take a look and increase the global threshold a little.
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You may have been 'Shadow Banned', check with the nice people at hn@ycombinator.com
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