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

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

If we say “only 1 post per user per N minutes” then the larger faction always wins, cause that faction will always get to post more than the small faction.

If we could rate limit to one post per faction then I guess this can work, but enforcing this with software sounds like a nightmare.

The noisiest people on each side are by far the most aggressive, so having a rate limiter on the noisest folks on each side would be quite effective. It lets the more thoughtful people – on each side – have equal time to the noisiest folks. That’s a big deal.