diff --git a/spec/rails_helper.rb b/spec/rails_helper.rb
index b3956cec056..13673195219 100644
--- a/spec/rails_helper.rb
+++ b/spec/rails_helper.rb
@@ -60,7 +60,6 @@ end
 # let's not run seed_fu every test
 SeedFu.quiet = true if SeedFu.respond_to? :quiet
 
-SiteSetting.max_consecutive_replies = 0
 SiteSetting.automatically_download_gravatars = false
 
 SeedFu.seed
@@ -163,9 +162,6 @@ RSpec.configure do |config|
     # very expensive IO operations
     SiteSetting.automatically_download_gravatars = false
 
-    # it makes hard to test
-    SiteSetting.max_consecutive_replies = 0
-
     Discourse.clear_readonly!
     Sidekiq::Worker.clear_all