# Post Rate Limit Trigger for a topic that's heating up

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-rate-limit-trigger-for-a-topic-thats-heating-up/98294
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** completed
**Created:** [September 28, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-rate-limit-trigger-for-a-topic-thats-heating-up/98294 "2018-09-28T17:19:23Z")
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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2019, 9:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-rate-limit-trigger-for-a-topic-thats-heating-up/98294/22 "2019-01-23T21:39:53Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> To be clear I fully support this approach and technique, but it takes some consideration to get the defaults right.

Not sure about the automatic trigger, but looking from prior-art about how it would work:

- Staff can trigger slow mode from the wrench menu.

- New Site Settings:

Regarding automatic triggers, we could:

- Check for posts rate in a topic during the last interval (day/hour, etc). Eg: If a topic has more than 50 posts an hour, or 100 topics per day, trigger slow mode for next 24h.

- Not sure flags are correct here, the discussion is lawful, just _too fast_ so it excludes most of community who aren’t online here **right now** from participating.

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