# How to change topic limits for new users
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-topic-limits-for-new-users/158126
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 18, 2020, 3:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-topic-limits-for-new-users/158126 "2020-07-18T15:29:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@JQ331](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JQ331)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2020, 3:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-topic-limits-for-new-users/158126/1 "2020-07-18T15:29:02Z")
Looks like the default is that new users cannot post more than 3 new topics in their first day (or something like that). I understand this has to do with [trust levels](https://meta.discourse.org/t/limit-the-daily-number-of-posts-from-a-user/89859/10). But I’m not finding the way to customize this in the admin dashboard.
In my case, I have some new users coming in who are meant to be very active from the get-go.
So how do I change the topic limits for new users?
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-topic-limits-for-new-users/158126/2 "2020-07-18T15:45:38Z")
Search for “newuser” in your site settings.
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### Author:  [@JQ331](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JQ331)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-topic-limits-for-new-users/158126/3 "2020-07-18T15:49:42Z")
Thanks, but I don’t think I am seeing what I need. In my case, a new user told me they got a warning about being a new user when they tried to create a 3rd topic, and were prevented from creating that topic.
When I search “newuser”, I see settings for:
-max replies per topic
-max mentions per post
-max links
-max images
-max attachments
-spam host threshold
I do not see a “max new topics” or the like.
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### Author:  [@markersocial](https://meta.discourse.org/u/markersocial)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2020, 3:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-topic-limits-for-new-users/158126/5 "2020-07-18T15:59:02Z")
The one you’re looking for I believe is:
rate limit new user create topic
You may also find this one useful:
rate limit new user create post
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2020, 4:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-topic-limits-for-new-users/158126/6 "2020-07-18T16:03:29Z")
> [@markersocial](#):
>
> rate limit new user create topic
Good catch!
> [@dax](#):
>
> Search for “newuser” in your site settings.
Would it make sense to make those settings names consistent with respect to the space?
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### Author:  [@EricGT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EricGT)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2020, 4:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-topic-limits-for-new-users/158126/7 "2020-07-18T16:04:02Z")
Our site has the same problem as it is a programming language site so some eager beavers ask questions like they own a question generating machine or something.
The option I changed was
```plaintext
max topics in first day
```
and set it to 7.
**EDIT**
For a related discussion see: [Admin, split topic. Limited by new user daily limit](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-split-topic-limited-by-new-user-daily-limit/128956)
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### Author:  [@JQ331](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JQ331)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2020, 4:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-topic-limits-for-new-users/158126/8 "2020-07-18T16:06:31Z")
> [@EricGT](#):
>
> `max topics in first day`
That’s it! Thanks. It is by default set to 3.
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### Author:  [@markersocial](https://meta.discourse.org/u/markersocial)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-change-topic-limits-for-new-users/158126/9 "2020-07-18T16:15:09Z")
> [@merefield](#):
>
> Would it make sense to make those settings names consistent with respect to the space?
Good idea. Another change that I think could help quite a lot in being able to find settings is updating the settings search to not require words to be in the exact order: [Admin Settings Search Suggestion - Word Order](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-settings-search-suggestion-word-order/157380)
@EricGT - Oh great, thanks! This is useful to me too.