# Allow only (x) consecutive replies in the same topic

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-only-x-consecutive-replies-in-the-same-topic/69756>\
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**Created:** [9월 10, 2017, 4:31오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-only-x-consecutive-replies-in-the-same-topic/69756 "2017-09-10T16:31:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![dax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dax/32/244677_2.png) [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)\
**Post date:** [9월 10, 2017, 4:31오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-only-x-consecutive-replies-in-the-same-topic/69756/1 "2017-09-10T16:31:17Z")

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I am often (too often) in the situation of having to merge more than one user’s consecutive replies and I often find myself responding “this is a forum, not a chat 😡, don’t hit the reply button each row you write”.

This is a bad behavior in a forum and I would personally prefer if users were allowed a number of consecutive replies limited by site settings or category settings (at least up to TL 3).

In this way users are forced **to learn how to use forum tools properly** , leaving the moderators free to do much more useful work.

A user trying to respond consecutively the second, third or fourth time will see a pop up that say

_“No more than x consecutive replies are allowed. Edit your previous reply instead or wait for someone to answer you”_.

Note that `newuser max replies per topic` and `sequential replies threshold` are different site settings from what I have proposed.  
The first is specific only to new users (and not for consecutive replies), the second shows only a warning but does not prevent the publication of consecutive replies.

EDIT: maybe a setting by category rather than a global site setting could be much more useful.

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