On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 20:22:26 -0400
"William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@o-sinc.com> wrote:

> It is sad when people cannot use means like Comrel or violations of
> CoC to control things as they see fit. Then they seek other means to
> limit, control, and filter people. That is hardly an open society, much
> less accepting or tolerant.

The best thing about a rate limit mechanism, is instead of having to single out and blacklist
various egregious users who are an evident problem, and having to defend accusations of bias ....

You get to target the behaviour in a way that applies to everyone equally.

You can't claim somebody is getting special treatment that way.

Or do you *want* special treatment?