They have, for the record. I.e., posts from the morning that were effectively were dead got additional downvotes rapidly after posts in this thread. And I got plenty of HN’s passive aggressive “you’re posting too fast” messages.

Are you a mod? For example, look at this comment[0], which stood at 1 all day long, which is now -3 after last night.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=25658587&goto=threads%...