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 u…

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.

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

[image] bartv: 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. 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. [image] …

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 men…

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

Oh, wow, thanks! :slight_smile: Can I read about the changes somewhere?

There is a post about user state descriptions that has been updated here . Specifically: [image] Understanding user statuses, roles, and permissions New user Special restricted account for first day of usage or new accounts. new_users have special rate limits defined in site settings Trust Leve…

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

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: Pos…

[image] featheredtoast: 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 Isn’t this covered by use all core Discourse functions; all new user restrict…

Limit the daily number of posts from a user

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bck055 September 21, 2026, 12:38am 13

May I have the same you.

limit visitor for non-member : 3 post /day

Member: unlimited?

Is it right?

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