Add posting limits to Trust Levels

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Trust level 1 can open 1 topic per day, 20 replies per day
Trust level 2 can open 5 topics per day and give 50 replies
Trust level 3 can open 10 topics per day and give 70 replies
Trust level 4 can open 20 topics per day and give 100 replies

Is it possible to make such a setting

topic opening and reply limits in the core apply to all trust levels

There should be differences in the level of trust between users in this regard

should actually be an option that should be added to the kernel

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Do you really have a problem with trust level 2 users posting too much?

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Yes, it would be good to keep it in a certain status until it reaches the leader level, on the contrary, it would be an incentive to reach the highest level.

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Itā€™s not currently possible and TBH it seems counterintuitive. You want to hamstring people from being active, which kinda goes against the spirit of community.

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I get this, but I also think something like @Ahmed26ā€™s suggestion would be useful.

In our case (and Iā€™m sure we canā€™t be alone in this) we have a freemium membership model, so ā€˜supportersā€™ who pay a membership fee get extra benefits. It would be handy for us to be able to extend that to our siteā€™s forum and give supporters extra benefits such as more daily posts and likes.

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Thanks for the extra info ā€“ can I clarify my understanding because something still seems strange to me. Do you only want a limited number of posts in the community? You donā€™t want to encourage engagement? What type of community is it?

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Thanks for the response. Yes, I can give you some more info and explain why weā€™d find this useful.

Our site is a social network for gay men that has existed for over 20 years. It has the usual social network features (such as profiles, a messaging system etc), and one section of the site is a forum. We moved that forum section over to run on Discourse five years ago, so our Discourse instance is linked to the rest of the site but is only one small section of the site. And it is only accessible to logged-in members.

(ETA: The profiles and messaging system mentioned are not those in Discourse. They are our own software.)

As with most freemium offerings, paying supporters get extra features (such as being able to see who has viewed their profile) and expanded limits (such as a larger messaging inbox).

At the moment, everyone gets equal access to the forum, whether theyā€™re a paying supporter or a free member, but it would be great to be able to differentiate. That way, as part of our list of extra supporter benefits we could include ā€œUnlimited forum posting!ā€ or something along those lines.

Obviously, I get the point youā€™re making about hamstringing people, and I understand that normally a forum community is going to want all the engagement it can get. We get plenty of engagement :joy: so Iā€™d be happy for it to be limited for our free members and unlimited for supporters.

This doesnā€™t have to be linked to trust levels. In fact, it would be even better if we could create custom groups that we assign to members (depending on their supporter/non-supporter status, in our case) and then have the ability to set limits for those groups.

Itā€™s already possible to set max topics per day, max edits per day and so on, and itā€™s possible to set limits for new users (including max replies in first day). Beyond that, thereā€™s currently no facility to set differentiated limits (such as to the number of posts per day) according to trust level or custom group.

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