Minor RFE: delay instead of complete block for exceeding consecutive post limit

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We have some topics were one person might be working on a design or other problem, and posting updates as they go — even without others responding. I can increase (and actually, have increased!) max consecutive replies to allow this, but that does seem like a useful defense against potential abuse.

Could this be made to be a required delay between posts, instead? Perhaps, start with 10 seconds between posts, and double every time?

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Sorry for treating feature as support, but cold you just let them edit the OP? Maybe make it a wiki if it were gong to go on for longer than the edit time for a topic?

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They could, but:

  1. I think separate posts actually make sense for a lot of these where it’s a sequence of updates where it’s actually interesting to see the history of what happened (like, designs being refined as they’re worked on).
  2. Many of our folks are primarily following by email. And emails aren’t sent for edits.
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This seems to be a recurring problem at multiple Discourse sites.

Anyone with a Blog topic gets stopped from time to time, until a follower comments to free them to proceed.

“Has there been any progress on the garden project?”
“Yes, but I couldn’t post until you asked!”

Perhaps a better solution, instead of a limit of 3 consecutive posts, make it a limit of 3 consecutive posts in a given day? Or 3 consecutive posts for a week?

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Just as a FWIW, the ‘3 consecutive replies’ limit doesn’t apply to the person who posted the topic, so someone should be able to create a ‘project topic’ and happily add as many consecutive posts as they like. :+1:

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