# Can we automatically combat Sea-lioning **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-automatically-combat-sea-lioning/112258 **Category:** Community Building **Created:** [March 21, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-automatically-combat-sea-lioning/112258 "2019-03-21T15:11:36Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco) #### Post date: [March 21, 2019, 5:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-automatically-combat-sea-lioning/112258/3 "2019-03-21T17:45:47Z")
We discuss a “slow mode” feature, that may help in which it rate limits individual users: > [@Post Rate Limit Trigger for a topic that's heating up](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-rate-limit-trigger-for-a-topic-thats-heating-up/98294): > > Generally, our users are well behaved, but when we get into certain topics, little flame wars crop up on very sensitive issues that do actually need to be worked out. We can moderate them and flag them and work through the behavior, but by the time that’s happened, we’ve lost the positive momentum that was in the topic to begin with. The issues at hand are also very complex and hard to tell if someone is giving legitimate critique or is being unfair. What the moderators need is more time to rea… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-we-automatically-combat-sea-lioning/112258)._