diff --git a/src/config/container.rs b/src/config/container.rs
index dd486c69..cae63489 100644
--- a/src/config/container.rs
+++ b/src/config/container.rs
@@ -791,7 +791,12 @@ impl Configuration {
                 .collect();
         }
 
-        if came_from_cli!(args, "silent") {
+        if came_from_cli!(args, "quiet") {
+            config.quiet = true;
+            config.output_level = OutputLevel::Quiet;
+        }
+
+        if came_from_cli!(args, "silent") || (config.parallel > 0 && !config.quiet) {
             // the reason this is protected by an if statement:
             // consider a user specifying silent = true in ferox-config.toml
             // if the line below is outside of the if, we'd overwrite true with
@@ -804,11 +809,6 @@ impl Configuration {
             };
         }
 
-        if came_from_cli!(args, "quiet") {
-            config.quiet = true;
-            config.output_level = OutputLevel::Quiet;
-        }
-
         if came_from_cli!(args, "auto_tune")
             || came_from_cli!(args, "smart")
             || came_from_cli!(args, "thorough")
diff --git a/src/parser.rs b/src/parser.rs
index e045993d..970da3f7 100644
--- a/src/parser.rs
+++ b/src/parser.rs
@@ -488,7 +488,6 @@ pub fn initialize() -> Command {
                 .conflicts_with("verbosity")
                 .num_args(1)
                 .requires("stdin")
-                .requires("output_limiters")
                 .help_heading("Scan settings")
                 .help("Run parallel feroxbuster instances (one child process per url passed via stdin)")
         )