# Max topics per day - setting a non-integer number

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/max-topics-per-day-setting-a-non-integer-number/157780
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 15, 2020, 8:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/max-topics-per-day-setting-a-non-integer-number/157780 "2020-07-15T08:22:09Z")
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### Author: ![markersocial](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/markersocial/32/170136_2.png) [@markersocial](https://meta.discourse.org/u/markersocial)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2020, 8:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/max-topics-per-day-setting-a-non-integer-number/157780/1 "2020-07-15T08:22:09Z")

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I’ve noticed that ‘max topics per day’ can be set to non-integer numbers. E.g. 0.334. I’m curious if anyone knows if setting this to 0.334 works like I assume it would and allow 1 topic per 3 days for example?

I tried setting ‘rate limit create topic’ and ‘rate limit new user create topic’ to a period longer than 1 day, with ‘max topics per day’ set to 1. Seems that a user could still post a new topic significantly before the rate limit cooldown since their last topic (for a topic that didn’t require manual approval in the review queue, previous post did require manual approval however). So I’m adjusting settings trying to figure out how to prevent that.

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### Author: ![fzngagan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fzngagan/32/259349_2.png) [@fzngagan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fzngagan)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2020, 9:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/max-topics-per-day-setting-a-non-integer-number/157780/2 "2020-07-15T09:44:10Z")

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Did you refresh the settings page to see if it did get set to that value?

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### Author: ![markersocial](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/markersocial/32/170136_2.png) [@markersocial](https://meta.discourse.org/u/markersocial)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2020, 12:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/max-topics-per-day-setting-a-non-integer-number/157780/3 "2020-07-15T12:54:06Z")

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Ah, thanks @fzngagan - after refreshing the page the ‘max topics per day’ number has been set to 0.

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2020, 12:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/max-topics-per-day-setting-a-non-integer-number/157780/4 "2020-08-14T12:54:06Z")

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