Board Thread:New Features/@comment-35329880-20200903074342/@comment-168424-20200908203434

This isn't off topic as the reply limit is pertinent if it were too low, but it seems that it is extremely high and the amount of actual moderation in Discussions overall is very low.

With lets say 10 active mods, monitoring a thousand messages a day is possible. But I still think you haven't given an example of thousands of messages a day... just because there are threads with near a thousand replies doesn't mean those boards have thousands of messages a day. This is why I asked for examples.

What is really going on is that most boards are either lightly moderated or not really at all, so their mods don't really care about an upper limit or don't mind if it is really high.

However, as a mod that is relatively strict, I's prefer a limit of say 250, so I know that after 200 or so, it will just stop at some point. I have never seen a thread worth anything over about 200 replies... most of it will be bored people just wasting time.