My Lands: Black Gem Hunting

I was asked by a clanmate to send ruin reports; I did, and now I've been blocked from sending messages of any kind to anyone, because I send messages too frequently. I can't let people know what's happened, I can't even send an in-game message to the moderators. How long will this last, and shouldn't we be warned that this might happen?

It doesn't last long mate, maybe 10-15minutes. Its to stop you spamming people's inboxes to death I guess...

Yes, it wore off pretty quickly -- but it's alarming when it happens: no warning, and no indication as to how long it's going to last.