# Let new users break posting rules the first time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [November 3, 2022, 9:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/let-new-users-break-posting-rules-the-first-time/244242 "2022-11-03T21:17:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![carbonrich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/carbonrich/32/274219_2.png) [@carbonrich](https://meta.discourse.org/u/carbonrich)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2022, 9:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/let-new-users-break-posting-rules-the-first-time/244242/1 "2022-11-03T21:17:18Z")
_Apologies if there’s already post on this, I spent time searching but couldn’t find anything._ **Request** : With some of the rules (like minimum\_post\_length), I wonder if it would be better for Discourse to tell users about the rule the first time they break it, but only enforce the rule (e.g. prevent them from posting) the second time? Personally, I think this would improve the UX, the vibes, the feelings about using Discourse. It would reduce the sense that, as a new user, Discourse often tells you off unexpectedly. **Context** : I’ve loved Discourse ever since watching one of Jeff’s talks several years back, I recently re-watched it and there was a part where he said “People don’t like to be told what to do” or something like that. Having setup a Discourse forum recently and started testing etc. I was surprised at how often it did “tell me what to do”, even though I appreciated why it was doing that each time, it was sometimes fairly annoying. Example: Having connected a Wordpress-based resource library to Discourse for discussion purposes, I was editing the Discourse description of one of these resources in its discussion thread. The resource in question had a short (but clear) title. When I went to save the new description, Discourse prevented me because the title was too short. ^ I now realise this isn’t a new user example, and the feature request wouldn’t actually solve this, maybe that’s more of an admin override request, anyway… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/let-new-users-break-posting-rules-the-first-time/244242)._