Comment by dang
12 hours ago
> I've already been HN rate limited and have no desire to make that worse, so I wasn't sure if I should risk a reply
Your account isn't rate limited. Are you talking about a different account? if not, what made you think it was?
It was this account, I only have the one. I got the "You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks." error last month when I hadn't made any more then a few replies, and not in quick succession.
I got the error after writing out a detailed reply (which I lost as a result since the error is on posting not loading the form) so I couldn't have been fast enough to trigger a regular rate limit.
I thought it was unusual so I searched and found your explanation for this error message https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45722979
I run into that all the time during periods of more intense posting, I just hit the back button or Shift-H for the same from Vimium to get back to the form with my text in it, and if I really want to post it I send it the next session I'm around.