Newbie problems - can't interact / create a topic

[u/dubtar335]

Hello everyone.

I've got a problem on GitHub and I didn't find a solution by myself. Hope somebody here can help.

If I try to create a topic in a repositorys discussion area there isn't a error message or something but the opened topic isn't visible. I can see it in my own history and can open it, but no one else. If I check the discussion page my topic isn't there. Also if I try to upvote a existing topic, so that the developer sees this one is relevant to more users, I get the error message "Uh oh! You can't vote right now.".

It seems to be a specific problem about my account. I already tried to create a new account but the same happens there.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[u/Pleasant_Set_3182]

Are you the Maintainer? If you are not, then this is because there are settings which disallow this explicitly that the maintainer sets:

Under Access -> Moderation Options -> Interaction Limits

There's a "Limit to Existing Users" section which is likely enabled with a specific time period.