Week 2 building in public. Last week I shared my numbers. This week I want to share my mistakes, because they were more useful.

Short version: I got too aggressive, too fast, and two platforms stopped me for it.
What happened: I was so eager to grow that I went hard out of the gate - lots of posts, comments, and answers across new accounts, most with a link back to my site. To me it felt like hustle. To the platforms' spam systems, a young account suddenly posting high volume with repeated links looks exactly like a bot.
LinkedIn temporarily restricted me. Quora deleted a batch of my answers for spam. Same week, same root cause.
Here's the thing - I wasn't using any automation. Everything was manual, written by me. But the pattern of my behavior looked automated, and the machines can't tell the difference between an over-eager human and a bot. The volume and the links did it.
What I'm taking from it:
New accounts have to earn trust slowly. You can't behave like an established account on day 10.
Value first, links rarely. I was dropping my link everywhere. Lesson: keep the link in your profile, give pure value in the content, let people come to you.
Consistency beats intensity - and now I've learned it's not just a mindset thing. The platforms literally enforce it.
The irony isn't lost on me: I study buyer psychology, and I got caught optimizing for the wrong signal. Wanting it badly made me move in a way that worked against me.
Slower from here. Still building.
What's the fastest you've seen an account get flagged for just... trying too hard?