# User Specific Slow Mode

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-specific-slow-mode/310081>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** moderation, slow-mode\
**Created:** [May 31, 2024, 9:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-specific-slow-mode/310081 "2024-05-31T09:36:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tris20](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tris20/32/264639_2.png) [@Tris20](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tris20)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2024, 9:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-specific-slow-mode/310081/1 "2024-05-31T09:36:22Z")

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I’m wondering if it would be possible to have something like slow-mode but for specific users?

There’s already some platform wide rate-limiting to this extent:

 ![The image displays various rate limiting configurations related to creating posts, topics, and personal messages on a forum or website, specifying parameters such as the minimum time interval between actions and maximum number of actions allowed per day. (Captioned by AI)](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/0/3/60368532f38e27baf65a48dff11ebdf1073e9ba3.png)

But I would love to be able to apply a slow mode to a specifc user(in a nice way).

Primary goal of this is to prevent them disrupting the existing user-base and culture by over-enthusiastically posting poor quality content. Secondary goal is to ensuring we don’t stiffle their enthusiasm to contribute. We simply want them to take a step back and think about a little more before posting.

I feel like Silencing would be extreme and unwelcoming. The case for slow mode would be for the type of user _wants_ to make positive and meaningful contributions, they just need a bit more time to learn how to do that.

Being able to rate-limit a particular user to `n` number of responses in a given time frame would reduce our moderation effort, reduce the disruptive impact of their posting, whilst also saying to the user “Hey, we love your enthusiasm. If you could take a bit of time to refine your topics they would provide a lot more value to the users you are sharing the platform with and get more valuable responses.”

I would see this as a user-specific setting rather than a group specific setting because it’s typically just the odd handful of users. We have plenty of good TL-0 and TL-1 users who shouldn’t be rate limited for example.

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