This is false. Nothing was done to your account at that time, whereas rate-limiting was active on your account at least two weeks ago. Rate limiting is applied to accounts that do things like use HN for political/ideological battle, or post too many low-quality comments, both of which you've been doing. Here are some of the worst of the comments you've been posting in recent months.
The A16Z title issue was no great scandal. It was bog standard moderation, with attention and responsiveness to community sentiment and feedback. That kind of thing happens all the time.
Meanwhile, you post too many comments that break the guidelines and use HN against its intended purpose. HN is only a place people want participate because others make an effort to keep the standards up rather than dragging them down. Please do your part to make HN better not worse if you want to participate here.
We actively intervene to ensure posts that are negative towards YC companies are not affected by usual downweights, and give them extra prominence on the front page. That has happened multiple times this week, including yesterday. We've never considered that the policy should also apply to other investment firms.
> all of my most recent comments received one downvote
From what I can see, in the most recent handful of comments, there were some downvotes but not by moderators and not by the same community members (patterns of unfair downvotes get detected and dropped on HN). And I think at least one comment that was downvoted when you posted your edit has now received enough upvotes to be back in the positive.
Of the first two pages of comments (60), covering most of the past 3 days, only 9 have any downvotes and they're from different users. The "most recent" comments are mostly unaffected by downvotes; prior to this one, only two of the past 23 comments had any downvotes.
> including the one that just straightforwardly answers someone's question
That one was odd, and it seemed like an unfair downvote so we've reversed it. But that just one of only two of the past 23 comments that was downvoted.
But really, why do people keep coming up with these false/exaggerated claims to try to cast doubt on our integrity? (Also, in the case of this claim, users can tell if comments have been downvoted from the comment text's shade of grey.)
This is false. Nothing was done to your account at that time, whereas rate-limiting was active on your account at least two weeks ago. Rate limiting is applied to accounts that do things like use HN for political/ideological battle, or post too many low-quality comments, both of which you've been doing. Here are some of the worst of the comments you've been posting in recent months.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45821460
The A16Z title issue was no great scandal. It was bog standard moderation, with attention and responsiveness to community sentiment and feedback. That kind of thing happens all the time.
Meanwhile, you post too many comments that break the guidelines and use HN against its intended purpose. HN is only a place people want participate because others make an effort to keep the standards up rather than dragging them down. Please do your part to make HN better not worse if you want to participate here.
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We actively intervene to ensure posts that are negative towards YC companies are not affected by usual downweights, and give them extra prominence on the front page. That has happened multiple times this week, including yesterday. We've never considered that the policy should also apply to other investment firms.
> all of my most recent comments received one downvote
From what I can see, in the most recent handful of comments, there were some downvotes but not by moderators and not by the same community members (patterns of unfair downvotes get detected and dropped on HN). And I think at least one comment that was downvoted when you posted your edit has now received enough upvotes to be back in the positive.
Of the first two pages of comments (60), covering most of the past 3 days, only 9 have any downvotes and they're from different users. The "most recent" comments are mostly unaffected by downvotes; prior to this one, only two of the past 23 comments had any downvotes.
> including the one that just straightforwardly answers someone's question
That one was odd, and it seemed like an unfair downvote so we've reversed it. But that just one of only two of the past 23 comments that was downvoted.
But really, why do people keep coming up with these false/exaggerated claims to try to cast doubt on our integrity? (Also, in the case of this claim, users can tell if comments have been downvoted from the comment text's shade of grey.)
I was gonna comment a minute before I read your edit. Thanks for the heads up.