# Joined groups too frequently error
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/joined-groups-too-frequently-error/356517
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 9, 2025, 10:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/joined-groups-too-frequently-error/356517 "2025-03-09T22:22:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Mira\_Iranpour](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mira_Iranpour)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2025, 10:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/joined-groups-too-frequently-error/356517/1 "2025-03-09T22:22:18Z")
“You’re joining/leaving groups a bit too frequently; please wait 50 seconds.”
Hi ! I looked in the settings but couldn’t find anything relevant to turn this feature off! our discourse structure is in a way that people need to join their relevant groups first to unlock categories and channels and some people would want to join 4 or 5 groups it would be annoyting to get this error when onboarding!
searched the forum here, someone else also had this issue but there was not reply to the topic!
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### Author:  [@Arkshine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Arkshine)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2025, 10:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/joined-groups-too-frequently-error/356517/3 "2025-03-09T22:46:41Z")
Unless I’m wrong, there seem to be no settings for that. For non-staff users, you are [limited](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/main/app/controllers/groups_controller.rb#L468) to joining three groups per minute.
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2025, 2:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/joined-groups-too-frequently-error/356517/4 "2025-03-10T02:30:34Z")
You’re not wrong. The rate-limiting on joining or leaving groups for non-staff users is hardcoded.