# Rate-limit first-responders in specific categories **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/rate-limit-first-responders-in-specific-categories/99555 **Category:** Feature **Created:** [15.Октябрь.2018 15:42:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rate-limit-first-responders-in-specific-categories/99555 "2018-10-15T15:42:39Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 5
### 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: [17.Октябрь.2018 22:53:51 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rate-limit-first-responders-in-specific-categories/99555/5 "2018-10-17T22:53:51Z")
One thing you can do (and I’ve done multiple times here on meta in the past) is lock certain users to trust level 0, which has fairly strict rate limits on how often people can post. That puts them in the “I want minimum levels of participation from this person” box. Putting a specific _topic_ in lockdown mode is something that has been discussed before and I tend to agree is correct, because some topics are farrrrr more controversial than others by their nature. See > [@Post Rate Limit Trigger for a topic that's heating up](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-rate-limit-trigger-for-a-topic-thats-heating-up/98294): > > Generally, our users are well behaved, but when we get into certain topics, little flame wars crop up on very sensitive issues that do actually need to be worked out. We can moderate them and flag them and work through the behavior, but by the time that’s happened, we’ve lost the positive momentum that was in the topic to begin with. The issues at hand are also very complex and hard to tell if someone is giving legitimate critique or is being unfair. What the moderators need is more time to rea… I would like to see this happen automatically though (kind of the way we execute a timed close on topics with too many live unhandled flags) because otherwise we’re heaping a bunch more emotional labor on staff to somehow know when topics are heating up and take manual action. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rate-limit-first-responders-in-specific-categories/99555)._