Suggestion: The no more than 3 posts in a row rule should have time limit

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Like, no more than 3 posts in a row within n amount of hours or days…
Otherwise, for example, there is a

https://community.wanikani.com/t/sheep-really-are-detailed/49283?u=trunklayer

thread; I wanted to post this there

but can’t, because nobody else has been posting there for a while and I’ve made 3 posts in a row there.

Also, the Goal 5 in the community goals could use better definition of spam. It should mention that more than 3 posts in a row in someone else’s thread counts as spam even if it doesn’t contain any advertisement.

@mods, I’m sorry for bothering you, but I think this needs addressing.

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Just ask and we’ll help breaking combo :wink:

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I was gonna say maybe it’s an ability that could be granted only to Regulars, because we wouldn’t want the riffraff to be able to post costantly, but on closer inspection, you’re only a Member, Trunky. How are you only a member?

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To be fair, editing a post, if it’s the last post of a topic, still pushes it to the top of the Latest list.

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Long story, but I think that this

might have played some part in it. This lack of clarity in the Goal is actually the main reason I created this topic :sweat_smile:

That’s not the point. My point is that there are topics where people rarely post. If you make 3 posts in a row in such a topic – then you wouldn’t be able to post anything there unless someone else posts. You could, of course, ask someone to post for you, but I think it would be more convenient for everyone if you could just post more posts there after some time (in hours or days).

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I do understand your point, for I also think the rule feels mostly arbitrary and extreme.
My statement was purely to play devil’s advocate.

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Sorry, I’meowt of likes trunky_rolling

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Yeah I’ve been throwing little reviews of VNs I finish in that one VN thread to let people know how they are especially from the more language learning perspective – at some point I might run into this problem cause it’s not really an active thread anymore. Could probably drop it and just deal with real spam as it happens; I’ve seen those spam accounts show up on the forums and they’re usually taken care of pretty quickly.

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I think the intent there was to make Discourse a place where people talk together. If you’re the only one posting in a thread, (the theory is) nobody else is interested in discourse-ing about that. And then that would fall into “get your own blog” territory.

But then I have to 2nd @Redglare and say just let us know when you need a combo-breaker post. Happy to, because we all know you aren’t a spammer and generally like your contributions.

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No word of a lie, starting that thread may be one of my great accomplishments in life.

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Although, the 3 post limit is not a hard rule on the OP, so it doesn’t really discouraging blogging type usage (see many study logs)

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Yeah I was thinking of study logs when I wrote that - kind of a special case, I think. Nothing in the world is as black and white as we might want.

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Could someone please post something in the

https://community.wanikani.com/t/new-in-context-quotes/64565?u=trunklayer

thread?

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Another suggestion: I think it might be worth consideration to allow the thread owners to decide whether they want this rule in their threads or not… Then threads like the quotes thread or various appreciation threads can be set to turn that rule off…

Sorry, just another small clumsy suggestion from a small clumsy cat trunky_rolling

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FWIW, I believe the only config knob Discourse provides here is the global setting “max consecutive replies” which lets you change the default 3 to some other number. Any other change would be something that somebody would need to ask the Discourse devs to implement as a feature suggestion.

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