Hi @Kevin_Bird,
Apologies for the posting speed bumps you encountered and thank you for bringing this to our attention!
There are some limits in place to try to mitigate the frequency of spammers who unfortunately create new accounts and immediately try to abuse features like sending direct messages or trying to send many messages in a short period of time. Those limits are relaxed as you spend a bit more time on the site – see trust levels for more info. We continue to monitor and adjust limits based on feedback, but spammers are a relentless source of nuisance posts.
However, the limit you ran into is a false positive which should be fixed now. This was intended to ask a brand new user to pause and wait for a reply when they have too many posts with no replies yet. Since you commented on a topic started by another user and @Andrew_Davidson replied to the topic (instead of one of your posts) this accidentally triggered the “too many posts waiting on replies” limit for your account. There should also have been a system notification you could have replied to (brand new users can’t start DMs, but can reply), but this seems to have been muted. Our community team will check into the platform behaviour and try to avoid future unnecessary speed bumps for others.
FYI, if anyone does run into any forum issues where moderator assistance is required, there are a few contact options listed in the site FAQ (aka README.1st). Contacting via the forum (flagging a post or sending a DM) would be preferable, but there’s also email backup if needed.
Regards,
Stennie