(More granular?) posts limits

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In the discussion on “(More granular?) posts limits,” kenshin79it seeks to prevent users from posting too many short messages in the same thread and limit continuous back and forth between two users. pfaffman suggests using the “get a room threshold” site setting, which warns users when they’ve made a certain number of posts to the same person in the same topic. codinghorror notes that most prevention is for sequential replies from the same user and mentions the just-in-time warning. kenshin79it asks if these features could be considered for inclusion if a pull request were submitted.

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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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See Site Setting get a room threshold

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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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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? :slight_smile: