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Account wrongly locked I can't post nor interact anymore

A topic by Soulblighter Music created 3 days ago Views: 62 Replies: 3
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Hi. I Got this account in 2022, but I've been absent since, 3 entire years away from Itch.io, I returned today and found I can no longer post or do replies around the forum, as I was trying to collaborate with other devs to make some music, but seems impossible due this because I can't get in touch with the folks around. The warning says:

"Your account is temporarily restricted from posting due to previous account activity a restriction has been placed on your account".

I'm genuinely confused about this because my past activity is 3 years old, and back then I just reviewed like 4 itch.io games where I shared one of my youtube video gameplays and gave to the devs some feedback, that's pretty much it, very little interaction back then apart from that.

maybe itch.io website and the app installed have issues.

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If you look in the message boards, you might notice that this is not specific to your account. A lot of people are restricted. And that restriction can take some time. Think weeks and longer.

There is two sides to this. Developers complaining about all the spam. And users complaining about being caught in the spam filter. There was a huge increase in spam a few months ago and Itch made the spam filter super sensitive. Posting links after a long pause might have cummulated together, maybe with other factors, to trigger the filter.

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I see, enlightening, thank you.