# Issues when using slow mode on a topic forever

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-when-using-slow-mode-on-a-topic-forever/186607>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** slow-mode\
**Created:** [April 10, 2021, 6:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-when-using-slow-mode-on-a-topic-forever/186607 "2021-04-10T06:13:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![dfabulich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dfabulich/32/108716_2.png) [@dfabulich](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dfabulich)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 6:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-when-using-slow-mode-on-a-topic-forever/186607/1 "2021-04-10T06:13:32Z")

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I’d like to offer some feedback on [the slow mode feature](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-rate-limit-trigger-for-a-topic-thats-heating-up/98294/84). The overwhelming feedback we got from our users when we turned on “slow mode” on a contentious thread was that they hated that editing a post reset the timer.

In fact, public understanding quickly metastasized into a false belief that we were unable to correct that in slow-mode, threads simply don’t allow you to edit your posts. “This thread doesn’t allow post editing so I’m making a new post.” After half a dozen people say it, it must be true, and that sucks, and the moderators suck for enabling such a ridiculous feature. (But but but…)

> [@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/98294/79):
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> users will decide that if they cannot post, but only edit, they should therefore _always_ edit… they will proceed to go back and edit in a bunch of back of forth into their existing posts. I am absolutely 110% sure they would do this.

I think you might be right, and that sucks, but IMO that would actually be _better_ than what actually happened when we used slow mode.

I think a good fix for this would be to allow one free edit per post without resetting the slow-mode timer; then restrict subsequent edits within the timer time limit.

Until this changes, it’s hard to imagine us ever wanting to turn on slow mode again.

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