BANNED FOR 5 MINUTES

March 19th, 2012
Has anyone come across a notification coming up when trying to reply to a comment (nothing to do with posting pictures) which reads as follows:

We appreciate your comments but this looks a little spammy, 5 minute comment ban!
On top of the notification box it says from the webpage.
@Srivna
March 19th, 2012
Yep. If you want to comment on a heap of photos at once you need to do it over a period of time or it thinks you are spamming.
March 19th, 2012
@agima Thank you Brendab but I was replying to a comment I received..nothing to do with posting pictures.
March 19th, 2012
Happened to me last week for the first time..

Didn't think I was commenting that much but there you go.....
March 19th, 2012
@bruni
I believe @agima means that if you COMMENT on a lot of pictures in a short amount of time, not necessarily POST a lot of pictures.
March 19th, 2012
Yes as Melissa said - its all about commenting, be it replying or posting a new comment the system doesn't care.

@mej2011 @andycoleborn
March 19th, 2012
It has happened to me once - after I posted a very short one-word comment, but that might also have had to do with the number of comments I had posted prior to that.

Nothing personal, simply the way the system works ... but it does feel like you get sent to the corner, doesn't it? =)
March 19th, 2012
@agima @mej2011 @andycoleborn thanks for your comment.
I think it had to do with what I wrote..I was talking about dolalr amouts for fines when caught driving and using your cell phone..once I took the money aspect out of the comment it went.
March 19th, 2012
@pippajeanne your comment made me smile. thank you.
March 19th, 2012
I got the same thing last week when I was linking a couple of my pictures in a comment. I immediately went back to posting though, so I don't really think it works very well :)
March 19th, 2012
Yes first day I started here , I commented on a load of photos, went a bit mad lol, didn't say a word for a week afterwards :)
March 19th, 2012
That hasn't happened to me yet, but it probably will at some point because I do comment on a lot of pictures!
March 19th, 2012
I had it yesterday - took too long to reply and included a couple of links
March 19th, 2012
@bruni haha yeah... we don't like $'s over here :-)
March 19th, 2012
I just tried to post a reply on one of my photos with a couple of youtube links. First and only comment in several hours (I'm a lightweight). And on MY OWN photo! How dare them. ;-)
March 20th, 2012
Yes it has happened to me before...but not for a while.
March 20th, 2012
Weird - i've never seen it and when I do my commenting i'm usually at it for longer than an hour. It must be something other than time commenting that triggers it.
March 20th, 2012
@reba Thank you for your comment..now that's exactly what I thought.
March 20th, 2012
this happened to me once... i was commenting on someone else's image and was saying something cost big bucks using the several dollar signs... got the message you're decribing... turned the dollar signs into "bucks" and all was well... for this response, when i used the dollar signs, i got the invalid data error message... i assume this is a way for the system to attempt to detect spam...
March 20th, 2012
Mel
Well I think its a bleeding good idea, I havn't had it happen to me yet but with the spammer that keeps popping up Ross has to try outwit him somewhere, I wont be annoyed if it does happen to me, I will either reword my comment, or come back after having a cup of tea
March 20th, 2012
Yeah..this happened with me yesterday when I was trying to reply a comment. I thought it popped up because my comment contained some links to other (food related) websites and hence it was getting banned!
March 20th, 2012
It's happened to me (once). I laughed and kept going!
March 20th, 2012
Oh no - it hasn't happened to me - I must not be commenting enough!!
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