# 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:** [28.Сентябрь.2018 17:19:23 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: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [29.Январь.2019 11:13:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-rate-limit-trigger-for-a-topic-thats-heating-up/98294/24 "2019-01-29T11:13:35Z")

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> [@sam](#):
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> 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.
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> 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.

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