Posting limit reached in only some game forums [resolved]

[Jerry]

After posting a rather large amount of trade threads today, I am no longer able to post in some forums of games because I have reached my limit for postings. The forum of several other games still work normally.
This is not related to the amount of postings in specific forums (I only got one per board; a few of those, that I cannot write in, I haven't posted at all at). Nor is it related to the developers, as in some cases I am locked out of the forum of one game while being able to post in that of another by the same dev. Also it cannot be a recent setting, as it does affect games, whose developer is banned from Steam for over a year.

Has anyone experienced this before? How long should I expect this to last?


[Edit:] Additional info: Posting lock affects the whole game forums, not just the trading subarea. Lock prevents answering on threads too. Problem occurs both in browser and client.

['nother edit:] Lock disappeared after ca. 12 hours.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Don't trading sub-forums have stricter rules on posting?

[Jerry]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Don't trading sub-forums have stricter rules on posting?

:qr:

They do. Only one thread per hour, only about 10 per 10 minutes in total. I am aware of these locks, and it's something different this time.
And as I said, it only affects some games while others aren't affected, so this is a very different thing to what I know.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Ask Spawn or Colt or any other mod if they know.

[Jerry]

Oh, I might add, the lock is not restricted to the trade area of the game boards either, but affects all subforums of the ones, I can't post in.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

I do see over 200 posts in the last 24 hours in your history though. That might be it.

[Jerry]

As I said, there are game forums, I can still post in, so there is no global limit, I have hit (was thinking about the 200 limit too). And there are games from the same developers, that act differently, so it's propably not a dev setting either.
Whatever it is, I just hope, it doesn't last longer than 13 days, and might even be over in 24 hours already. Would be a mess, if I had to set up all of these completely new instead of copying headers.
Or if I was stuck in this state forever because I messed up some database entry unintentionally by mass posting...

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

I don't think a global limit is a thing. The main forums have their own limit. When I hit that, I can still post in game hubs.

[Jerry]

Somewhere between 10 and 16 hours after my last unrestricted posting, things went back to normal. Able to post everywhere again.
Well, that was strange, but at least it's good to know, this thing fixes itself over time too.

[zZzooey.exe]

Game hubs and main steam forums restrictions do not affect eachother. Same goes between different game forums.

[Jerry]

Originally posted by ん:

Game hubs and main steam forums restrictions do not affect eachother. Same goes between different game forums.

Definitely not correct. You can run into a 5-minute lock for trade threads when posting too many in a short timeframe (as said above, my estimation would be 10 in 10 minutes). And in this case, this happened on a somewhat larger scale. 12 hours locked out of about a third of all game forums. Many of which I hadn't posted in in months.