Comment by dang

The rate limit works at the "all posts" level, so it doesn't distinguish between submissions and comments.

I looked at your recent comment history and it doesn't look to be breaking the site guidelines, so I've taken the rate limit off your account To prevent it kicking in again, please remember that on HN the idea is to value quality over quantity, and be sure that you're up to date on the guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.