Need Rebuy Guidelines For a Ring Game

[TomBrooks]

Some friends and I just started an NL Ring game and had our first game this weekend. We played .10/.25 $25 maximum buyin. This was the first time playing in such a game for some of the players including me and the host. I dipped a few dollars in the beginning and asked to rebuy enough to top off my stack to the $25 max. That started a whole big discussion on when to allow rebuying or "topping off." One guy was arguing that you shouldn't be able to rebuy until you bust out. I had to struggle a bit to get it to where you could rebuy if your stack got as low as $15 or lower.

What's the usual way to handle this? I would rather not play shortstacked. I could see how it could slow the game down a lot if someone was looking to buy more chips every hand however.