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

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**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:** ![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:** [1월 2, 2014, 6:24오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-the-point-of-limiting-new-users-to-three-replies-per-topic/11696/9 "2014-01-02T06:24:12Z")

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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_. What do you want the software to do, drive to the person’s house and have a face to face intervention with them?

The “sorry you can’t reply any more times” I _think_ is a shared post rejection message – it applies to a number of rate limits on posting in the topic. @eviltrout would have to clarify.

And all this discussion is still totally off-topic. If you own (created) the topic, I don’t think there’s any reason to limit your replies, even as a new user.

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