Users here are extremely quick to push back if we do something they find objectionable. That's in fact how the moderation practices have evolved in the first place—by intense operant conditioning: if you do X and immediately get swarmed by wasps, you're less likely to do X in the future.
Slowbanning and rate limiting are two different things. Your account is rate limited. That's standard practice in a number of cases, including (a) when an account is posting too many low-quality comments too quickly and/or getting involved in flamewars, and/or (b) there's reason to believe that an account is the latest incarnation of a user whom we've banned several times in the past. The bar for moderation penalties is a lot lower when we seem to be dealing with a serial abuser.
Edit: I deleted an earlier response to you because I didn't have time to finish it (I wanted to respond to the bit about 'slowbanning'). If I had seen that you'd already responded to it in your parent comment, I wouldn't have deleted it. The original text was:
We've already established that you interpret those comments very differently than I do. The question then would be: is there any way to
I post that sort of moderation comment all the time—tens of thousands of them by now. If the community agreed with you, we'd never hear the end of it; in fact, it would be a bloodbath. So I don't think the community agrees with you.
Slowbanning and rate limiting are two different things. Your account is rate limited. That's standard practice in a number of cases, including (a) when an account is posting too many low-quality comments too quickly and/or getting involved in flamewars, and/or (b) there's reason to believe that an account is the latest incarnation of a user whom we've banned several times in the past. The bar for moderation penalties is a lot lower when we seem to be dealing with a serial abuser.
Edit: I deleted an earlier response to you because I didn't have time to finish it (I wanted to respond to the bit about 'slowbanning'). If I had seen that you'd already responded to it in your parent comment, I wouldn't have deleted it. The original text was:
We've already established that you interpret those comments very differently than I do. The question then would be: is there any way to
I post that sort of moderation comment all the time—tens of thousands of them by now. If the community agreed with you, we'd never hear the end of it; in fact, it would be a bloodbath. So I don't think the community agrees with you.