After discussing it with other mods, I'm giving @Gerald Monroe  a 3 month "1 comment per week" and "1 post per week" rate limit. This isn't because any one comment was banworthy, but because of an overall pattern that added up to noticeably detracting from comment-section quality, while also commenting fairly prolifically. The combination of patterns include:

• Often seeming to not quite understanding a frame, and writing lots of long comments that seem to somewhat miss the point, and
• Often presenting their case in a kind of aggro way, often in a way seeming to aim at making a dig at another person (while also making false claims about what they believe)
• Not understanding why people are bothered by their commenting style and complaining when other people moderated them, in a way that gives me little hope for them changing.

Reminder of the general philosophy that LessWrong is aiming to be a Well-Kept Garden, which means setting standards higher and more particularly than might feel natural if you're used to civic participation norms.

We gave Gerald a manual rate limit several months ago. Since then we've implemented the automoderation feature and it's flagged Gerald multiple times, and we've heard two complaints from nod-mods, as well members of the LW team generally finding his comments to make discussion sections worse.

We're giving him a 1-comment-per-week / 1-post-per-week rate limit for now. In three months when we check in, we'd need to see him make significant changes in commenting style to avoid further mod action. (I think the main request is a general "make more effort to understand where people are coming from, not making false claims about what they believe)

(Reminder that rate-limited users can still comment as often as they want on their own posts, and if you want rate limited users to be able to comment unrestrictedly on your post, you can enable the "ignore rate limits " setting)

@jacob_cannell is receiving a warning for mass-downvoting TekhneMakre's content. They downvoted ~40 posts and comments in the span of 1-2 hours, with a median time between votes of 8 seconds, which indicates they didn't read the content before voting, and the order of votes seems to correspond roughly to just the order of content on TekhneMakre's profile. We are reverting the relevant votes. If Jacob decides to do something like this again (broadly construed), we will likely issue a multi-month ban.

We banned Thoth Hermes for being a new account created by a user we had previously banned, and for generally writing a lot of pretty heavily downvoted content that also seemed to me to often veer into unnecessary conflict (at -150 net karma across both of his accounts he is among the lowest karma users on the site).