Am I banned from adding friends? If so, how?

[Tris :D]

Recently i've gotten the following message when trying to add anyone as a friend on steam:

"It looks like you've sent too many friend invites. To prevent spam you'll have to wait before you can invite more friends."

However this has been going on for almost a week now and its still showing this message. Am I banned from adding friends for some reason? or is this a bug?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

1 week up to 1 month "from the last time you saw the error message." Key point in quotes.

Read this post that explains a little bit of the new restriction...

Originally posted by ReptaR LFT:

Originally posted by Ogami:

You should be able to send 30 friend requests each week.
After 30 send you have to wait a week before you can send more.
If you still cant send a friend request after 6 weeks like you described, you should contact Steam Support.
There is clearly something wrong there.

Did do so, apologies for forgetting to mention. This is what they replied with before closing the ticket abrubtly:

The duration is different for each user and can last 1 week or up to 1 month from the last time you saw the message. Please note, Steam Support is also unable to remove or modify this limit.

We don't have any further information in regards to this limit but if you would like to share your thoughts or suggestions regarding it, we encourage you to share it in the Steam Discussions as this forum is regularly read by the Valve Development team.

Since there's not much more that we can say or do for this, I am going to go ahead and close this help request.

If you have any other unrelated questions or issues, please create a new one and we will be happy to assist you.

Steam Support / Jr. Portal Cake Tester
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https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/2299597907734477316/?tscn=1591660294#c2299597907734515946

The cooldown has many variables for when the account gets this message.