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

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**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [1 Gennaio 2014, 6:54pm 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:** ![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:** [1 Gennaio 2014, 10:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-point-of-limiting-new-users-to-three-replies-per-topic/11696/5 "2014-01-01T22:04:20Z")

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It is a problem if you put your evil hat on, and know how we calculate new users. Safety issue, becomes trivial to fill the forum with spam with one account, in about 16 minutes. 😄

Have you met our friend tupac? [New Question / Answer Rate Limits - Stack Overflow](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/02/new-question-answer-rate-limits/)

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