# Time Delay Required Between Posting
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-delay-required-between-posting/37817
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 12, 2016, 12:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-delay-required-between-posting/37817 "2016-01-12T12:32:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Tia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tia)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2016, 12:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-delay-required-between-posting/37817/1 "2016-01-12T12:32:16Z")
One of our users has posted 3 or 4 (legitimate) posts in a row and got suspended for 24 hours.
I haven’t found such parameter in the settings (rate limits yes, but nothing about the 24 hours suspension). It’s a basic user that just joined the community and was never flagged or banned. What am I missing here?
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2016, 12:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-delay-required-between-posting/37817/2 "2016-01-12T12:51:14Z")
Are you sure he really got suspended, i.e. got logged out and could not login again?
This really sounds like `max topics in first day` being hit, which should only temporarily block posting. Suspensions should never be auto-generated by the system.
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### Author:  [@Tia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tia)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2016, 12:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-delay-required-between-posting/37817/3 "2016-01-12T12:56:48Z")
You’re absolutely right, missed this one.
Thank you!
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2016, 12:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-delay-required-between-posting/37817/4 "2016-01-12T12:58:58Z")
Great! Note that there is also a parallel setting for replies (defaults to `10`).
Also, you should only increase these values (significantly) if your users are vetted in some way: You don’t want spammers to be able to create a mess that is hard to clean up.
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### Author:  [@Tia](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tia)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2016, 1:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-delay-required-between-posting/37817/5 "2016-01-12T13:04:09Z")
Thanks for the tip, very helpful =)
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/time-delay-required-between-posting/37817/6 "2024-06-08T12:45:53Z")
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