diff --git a/app/jobs/regular/feature_topic_users.rb b/app/jobs/regular/feature_topic_users.rb
index 6eabc024e..702fb4f6c 100644
--- a/app/jobs/regular/feature_topic_users.rb
+++ b/app/jobs/regular/feature_topic_users.rb
@@ -8,16 +8,10 @@ module Jobs
 
       topic = Topic.find_by(id: topic_id)
 
-      # there are 3 cases here
-      # 1. topic was atomically nuked, this should be skipped
-      # 2. topic was deleted, this should be skipped
-      # 3. error an incorrect topic_id was sent
-
-      unless topic.present?
-        max_id = Topic.with_deleted.maximum(:id).to_i
-        raise Discourse::InvalidParameters.new(:topic_id) if max_id < topic_id
-        return
-      end
+      # Topic may be hard deleted due to spam, no point complaining
+      # we would have to look at the topics table id sequence to find cases
+      # where this was called with an invalid id, no point really
+      return unless topic.present?
 
       topic.feature_topic_users(args)
     end