Ever noticed how some people just drop out of a conversation? Maybe it's because some absolute knob decided that conversations are bad for the site and hit them with a '5 comments per day max' throttling limit. Without, of course, the courtesy of ever mentioning it, because Hacker News is built on silent automatic application of rules to handle the unmanageable hordes, which would be fine if they wouldn't spout bullshit about their careful individual moderation and constant transparent communication.https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/issues/21