diff --git a/src/features/autothread.ts b/src/features/autothread.ts
index 3f2e2ea..ca2f2cb 100644
--- a/src/features/autothread.ts
+++ b/src/features/autothread.ts
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import { threadStats } from "../features/stats";
 import { createNewThreadName } from "../helpers/threads";
 
 const CHECKS = ["☑️", "✔️", "✅"];
-const IDLE_TIMEOUT = 36;
+const IDLE_TIMEOUT = 72;
 const STAFF_ACCEPT_THRESHOLD = 2;
 
 const autoThread: ChannelHandlers = {
diff --git a/src/features/promotion-threads.ts b/src/features/promotion-threads.ts
index 7e3b253..7a2700c 100644
--- a/src/features/promotion-threads.ts
+++ b/src/features/promotion-threads.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 import ogs from "open-graph-scraper";
-import { sleep } from "../helpers/misc";
 import { ChannelHandlers } from "../types";
 import { threadStats } from "../features/stats";
 import { format } from "date-fns";
 import fetch from "node-fetch";
-import { ChannelType, MessageType } from "discord.js";
+import { ChannelType } from "discord.js";
 
 const promotionThread: ChannelHandlers = {
   handleMessage: async ({ msg }) => {
@@ -15,18 +14,6 @@ const promotionThread: ChannelHandlers = {
       return;
     }
 
-    // Delete top-level replies
-    if (msg.type === MessageType.Reply) {
-      msg.author.send(msg.content);
-      const reply = await msg.reply(
-        "This is a thread-only channel! Please reply in that message’s thread. Your message has been DM’d to you.",
-      );
-      msg.delete();
-      threadStats.threadReplyRemoved(msg.channelId);
-      sleep(5).then(() => reply.delete());
-      return;
-    }
-
     const [firstLink] =
       msg.content.match(
         /https?:\/\/(www\.)?[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._+~#=]{2,256}\.[a-z]{2,6}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_+.~#?&//=]*)/g,