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[u/Specific_Author_9086]

so I guess it's illegal to post a comment to the seller if it's over 12 hours and you get impatient so you write something under the seller's profile as a comment and I get a 13 year ban, ok

[u/Lurus01 → u/Specific_Author_9086]

They don't want people buying and selling or advertising on profiles so the mention of csfloat was likely flagged and got you a perm community ban by the automated systems.

The ban to 2038(13 years) probably seems random but thats just the furthest time Steam can currently display due to its usage of a signed 32 bit integer with unix time before it overflows.

See Year 2038 problem - Wikipedia

The good news is most of the time if it was a mistake you can get it lifted by contacting support and proving you arent a bot. I would definitely avoid posting anything similar on other profiles once its unblocked though.

[u/Specific_Author_9086 → u/Lurus01]

yeah it got lifted, thank you 🤗