Limit the daily number of posts from a user

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Is it possible to do this?
The only options I find are “silence” and “suspend” (I use another language so I don’t know if I translated these correctly).

Anyway, what I want to do is limit the number of posts a user can send in a period of time so they don’t fill the platform with their short and usually meaningless messages.

Thanks

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I think this is better solved with a clear moderation policy; educate your community that meaningless posts are not tolerated. If you cap the number of posts for all users, you’d be punishing the good ones too and you may loose out on great conversations.

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You can lock the user at trust level 0, which means they’ll be subject to fairly strict TL0 limitations.

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That’s why I asked to limit for a specific user, not everyone :slight_smile:, but I see how my phrasing could lead to misinterpretation.

This seems practical, but the limitations don’t seem to influence the number of posts.
The reference I found is this https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-do-user-trust-levels-do/4924/2

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I suppose you’re right; the protection I am thinking of is

max topics in first day
max replies in first day

There is some subtlety here, however, because the first “day” begins 24 hours after creating their first post.

I wonder if we should extend these limits to TL0 as well. I know @sam has mentioned this before…

Edit: this is now done courtesy of @featheredtoast :wink:

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We did end up changing this @desrocchi I hope it helps.

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Oh, wow, thanks! :slight_smile:

Can I read about the changes somewhere?

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There is a post about user state descriptions that has been updated here. Specifically:

The blog should probably be updated as well.

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Blog post was written after that and is already up to date. Possible it is missing details?

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My suggestions is to update the TL0 and TL1 sections.

For TL0, the 24 hours sections should be removed:

  • Post more than 3 topics in the first 24 hours after creating their first post
  • Post more than 10 replies in the first 24 hours after creating their first post

TL1 should have these added:

  • Post more than 3 topics in the first 24 hours after creating their first post
  • Post more than 10 replies in the first 24 hours after creating their first post
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Isn’t this covered by

  • use all core Discourse functions; all new user restrictions are removed

which is already in the TL1 section?

I removed the “in the first 24 hours” bit as specified.

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