# (More granular?) posts limits
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/more-granular-posts-limits/122596
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 10, 2019, 8:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/more-granular-posts-limits/122596 "2019-07-10T20:55:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@kenshin79it](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kenshin79it)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2019, 8:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/more-granular-posts-limits/122596/1 "2019-07-10T20:55:33Z")
I’ve been toying with the configuration for post limits, and I’m not sure if I understand all the available options.
I see we can set a minimum post length, which is fine. I set it to 30, and I don’t want to set it any higher, because sometimes it makes sense to have short posts. However, we have users who constantly reply with annoying one-liners, and I’d like to prevent that.
Is there a way to say “prevent too many short posts in the same thread”?
Also, is there a way to prevent continuous back and forth between two users? Like, “allow at most N reply chains from any two given users (per day)”?
Alternatively, is it possible to say “each user can post at most N messages in any given topic”?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2019, 10:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/more-granular-posts-limits/122596/2 "2019-07-10T22:09:41Z")
See Site Setting `get a room threshold`
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> Number of posts a user has to make to the same person in the same topic before being warned.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2019, 10:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/more-granular-posts-limits/122596/3 "2019-07-10T22:31:35Z")
> [@kenshin79it](#):
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> Also, is there a way to prevent continuous back and forth between two users? Like, “allow at most N reply chains from any two given users (per day)”?
Interesting observation, but not exactly. Most of the active prevention we have is for sequential replies from the same user.
There is the just-in-time warning that @pfaffman pointed out as well.
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### Author:  [@kenshin79it](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kenshin79it)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 6:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/more-granular-posts-limits/122596/4 "2019-07-11T06:27:59Z")
It makes sense that that’s a warning, because you can work around it by simply replying to someone else in the topic.
As for the rest, would they be settings you’d consider including, assuming a PR would come? 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2022, 6:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/more-granular-posts-limits/122596/5 "2022-12-31T18:15:44Z")
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2022, 7:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/more-granular-posts-limits/122596/6 "2022-12-31T19:56:27Z")