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Its inadvertently requiring you to spam in order to avoid getting filtered as spam
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Well I'm still not able to post, ig I'll try and bump it to 5 posts in here since it sounds like thats the threshold
edit: Yep, getting to 5 posts worked.
edit: Yep, getting to 5 posts worked.
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What we are trying to prevent here is commercial spam, which we get hit with all the time.
Forum help has a less fierce spamfilter than the game fora, or at least used to in the past. Which also makes sense: Need to have somewhere you can post pretty much no matter what, to get help.
They've never stated the threshold. I do recall from years back, though, that people found they kept being hit by it until they hit around 20. But it obviously can have been changed since then, as they keep tweaking it at times.
At the end of the day then it's a tradeoff between being an inconvenience to new users and preventing spam/malicious links. I wouldn't be surprised if how you post the first few posts matters too. Like, I wouldn't be surprised if you could post simple, short text posts in the game fora without links or quotes, but including either, and especially links, could trigger it.
Back in the day, as in over a decade ago, it wasn't uncommon to find in the morning that the fora, as in literally all game fora, had been spammed with malicious links. Especially for ugg boots, which to this day in my head are associated with scam as a result, as for a long while it always was ugg boots they tried to scam with. There also was various links to shady porn sites, etc. and what else you could imagine scammers would try and use to trick you.
All that spam and maliciousness obviously wasn't good and put a strain on mods to delete and users to report. Some of the lesser used fora could have those spam posts stay for a long time. Honestly, wouldn't be surprised if one of two still lingers in some long forgotten thread in a rarely used forum. So a tradeoff was done between preventing spam, while also not inconveniencing users too much.
In the past, before teh big forum upgrade around 2015, there also used to be limits on how many PMs you could have at a time based on your post count.
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I am experiencing this when only posting text and no links. I have not been able to reply on the CS2 forum, or start my own threads. Let's see if it will let me post here.
Found the same problem trying to post just plan text, it looks like making a few posts will sort it out
i've been trying to reply to the main post and can't. keeps saying i look like spam. i'm not spam