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Lumifer comments on Voiceofra is banned - Less Wrong Discussion

21 Post author: NancyLebovitz 23 December 2015 06:29PM

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Comment author: Vaniver 23 December 2015 09:04:22PM 4 points [-]

SO also has direct rate limiting (40 votes a day). I do think that it makes sense to have a separate rate limit for user-user links; maybe I can vote 100 times a day and have it be normal, but voting even 10 times a day on a particular user might means something funny is going on.

Comment author: Lumifer 23 December 2015 09:09:39PM 1 point [-]

Yes, it would be reasonable to have separate per-user/user link limits. Though the limits could be a function of the number of comments that user made recently -- if someone gets into a manic mode and posts dozens of trash comments in a few hours...

Comment author: Vaniver 23 December 2015 09:27:44PM 2 points [-]

Right now, users with sufficiently high karma have access to the vote buttons on the userpages of users with sufficiently low upvote percentage, as far as I can tell to enable this sort of downvoting. It seems likely that exemptions could be baked it to these rate limits just as easily.