I genuinely believe the interesting aspect of Elizabeth's death is the focus it can (if we allow it) put on the inherent injustice of monarchies. But OK, you don't. Fine, its your site. The temp ban/rate limit was kinda low key uncalled for. I was civil.

We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments and/or get involved in flamewars. You've posted quite a few low-quality comments lately, not just in this thread. I'm sorry if it came across the wrong way, but this is standard HN moderation, and one of the few software tools we have to try to dampen the decline of this place.

If you want to build up a track record of posting better-quality comments for a while and then ping us at hn@ycombinator.com, we'll be happy to take a look and hopefully remove the rate limit; we do that all the time.

Not low quality: succinct.

And no, I'm not going to debase myself and beg you to remove something you implemented out of pettiness. It's your error, and it's unfortunate (for me) that you wield your power like this.

So I'm out then.

You'll get used to it in time.