# Prevent fast and short replies when a flame war is ongoing

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-fast-and-short-replies-when-a-flame-war-is-ongoing/55209
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [4 Enero, 2017 22:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-fast-and-short-replies-when-a-flame-war-is-ongoing/55209 "2017-01-04T22:03:02Z")
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### Author: ![Silvanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/silvanus/32/62831_2.png) [@Silvanus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Silvanus)
#### Post date: [4 Enero, 2017 22:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-fast-and-short-replies-when-a-flame-war-is-ongoing/55209/3 "2017-01-04T22:33:48Z")

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> [@Discourse Hot Topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hot-topics/48215/11):
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> > [@Discourse Hot Topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-hot-topics/48215/10):
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> > I’d want to somehow use the plugin or make a fork of it that would automatically make a topic “hot” and prevent fast and short replies when a flame war is ongoing…
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> This is a really interesting idea. I suspect users will hate it.. but it’s fascinating. “whoa slow down” seems like a natural thing.

I’m just in the middle of trying to water down the latest flame war we had. This happens every now and then, which is why[I brought this up earlier as well](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rethink-for-discourse/52834)… Of course I understand that flame wars don’t happen in every forum, but in quite many, I think, and this would be a nice feature for the whole discourse as well 🙂

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