# Personal message rate limit also limits "Something Else" flags

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-rate-limit-also-limits-something-else-flags/257002>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [March 3, 2023, 9:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-rate-limit-also-limits-something-else-flags/257002 "2023-03-03T21:20:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![rahim123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@rahim123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahim123)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/personal-message-rate-limit-also-limits-something-else-flags/257002/5 "2023-04-10T19:15:55Z")

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> [@jericson](#):
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> **Add TL-based multipliers to the PM thread rate limit.** I honestly think 20 is enough in all but the most extreme situations. But if flags eat into the limit, I’d want to give trusted users at least as many PM thread starts as regular users.

This would be a fantastic improvement all around for Discourse. Even with the default of not allowing TL0 to send PMs, suddenly allowing TL1 to send a bunch of different new PM threads is a low-grade PM spam attack just waiting to happen. Or, the PM rate limit can be set to something very low, but that would be untenable to also apply that same rate to trusted users \>= TL2.

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