• 1.) Meatlover's Pizza followed by Pepperoni 2.) Strength (small, but good people and discussion there) 3.) Competitive gaming communities based around the games I play.

  • I think it might be important to have the reply buttons show up even for currently rate-limited users. If I'm a new user and I've been excitedly posting all around, and all of a sudden the reply button is gone, it doesn't tell me that I need to slow down. It seems to signal that the site is broken or that some posts can't be replied to, and is confusing imo.

    I think a better solution is to have reply be styled differently to denote rate limiting, and have the mouse-over text reflect that. Possibly even have it link to an explanation page about rate limiting. Maybe even allow them to draft their next comment but explain that it cannot be posted yet in big letters.

    That being said, I think rate-limiting is a great feature, and a necessary one. Probably all user operations should have some amount of rate limiting, or abuse is still possible, and it allows you to tune how hard the servers are getting hit at peak load.