# Limit # topic posts / user / month

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/limit-topic-posts-user-month/139269
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [January 21, 2020, 7:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/limit-topic-posts-user-month/139269 "2020-01-21T07:45:16Z")
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### Author: ![Tris20](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tris20/32/264639_2.png) [@Tris20](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tris20)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2023, 8:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/limit-topic-posts-user-month/139269/6 "2023-11-17T08:53:20Z")

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> [@merefield](#):
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> I’m not a huge fan of blocking people from creating content on my site,

Same but in some cases this is useful. For example, we’re thinking about creating an “Announcements” sub-category. Some people in our company have shown a prepensity to spam announcements. This would damage our Discourse instance as a whole, because users would associate Discourse with spam/noise. Consequently users would be less inclined to explore the platform and find the real value.

Putting a hard limit on the Announcements sub-category of one Topic per month would be a good solution here. It would force the poster to really think “Is this actually _that_ valuable?”. Or even better, it would force them to create a more comprehensive/refined monthly newsletter.

@tobiaseigen I’m reviving a very old topic here 😅 was there ever any movement on this? I’ve seen this plugin:

> [@Limit the amount of topics per user in a specific category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/limit-the-amount-of-topics-per-user-in-a-specific-category/84907):
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> Originally got the idea from this topic: [Limit one post per person?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/limit-one-post-per-person/80072) though I had a slightly different use case for it. On a community that I’m a forum moderator for, I got tired of people creating multiple advertisement topics in the advertising section. At first, I created a feature request on these forums, but after some trial and error I came up with my own plugin that does the job. play_button Current features list Of course there are plenty of things that can/need to be improved but considering this…

But it’s not quite what we are looking for.

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