Comment by ljf

Re the third person: I was replying in a sub thread, providing extra context to the thread of the person that replied to you, and therefore was talking to them. Sorry if that offended you, I had initially assumed that due to your block you wouldn't actually be able to comment on this thread, but that proved to be incorrect.

Also in your post here you asked:

"And 5 comments in a single day does seem reasonable, why did I get a timeout anyway?"

I responded to your question of 'why did I get a timeout anyway', and took the time to have a quick look for why you might have been limited, as I've seen here people often don't notice if they had been downvoted or even if DanG has asked them to stop doing a certain thing.

I have 'showbanned' on as an option, so I see the posts of people that have been shaddowbanned - I will often vouch for their posts if they've said something of interest, but usually will look back a little in their history to get an idea of why they were banned. I was about to vouch for a person the other day but a very swift look showed that DanG had blocked them for posting far right and anti gay comments, so even though that post was good, I declined to vouch for it. So having a look at a commenters other posts is normal to me, and I wasn't singling you out - I wouldn't have bothered if you hadn't asked the question I refer to, and to be honest I assumed I'd be helping by highlighting context you seemed unaware of.