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		gowld 37 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: P vs. NP and the Difficulty of Computation: A ruli... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46535363 I don't understand why new accounts, heavily downvoted and flagged, have higher higher quotas for post rate-limiting than well-reputed commenters.

wizzwizz4 37 days ago | [–]

I suspect the rate limit takes into account normal activity, as an anti-bait mechanism. (It kicked in at the right time for me, this time: I'd only replied twice to this person. However, it is generally annoying.)

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