# What is the point of limiting new users to three replies per topic?

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**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [1월 1, 2014, 6:54오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-point-of-limiting-new-users-to-three-replies-per-topic/11696 "2014-01-01T18:54:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![apere006](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@apere006](https://meta.discourse.org/u/apere006)\
**Post date:** [1월 3, 2014, 12:33오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-point-of-limiting-new-users-to-three-replies-per-topic/11696/15 "2014-01-03T00:33:44Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> If you don’t read the yellow box – which shows up even before you begin typing in the screenshot shown above – then we don’t want you as a user.

Users don’t read any more than they need too. After posting a few times, you assume post it text = instructions you already know. I am blind to those instructions the same as with ADs.

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