title: Facebook app blocked for posting too fast. What are the limits?
body: <p>We (a local <a href="http://technariumas.lt/" rel="noreferrer">hackerspace</a>) have a Tumblr blog and wanted to make ourselves a Facebook page. Before going live we wanted to import all our Tumblr content to Facebook so our fans on Facebook can browse it here as well. For this I have made an app that reads all the posts from our Tumblr blog and publishes them to our new Facebook page (backdating those posts as well). Here's my problem: after the app does about ~130 re-posts (~260 operations: publish + backdate) I start getting an error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Received Facebook error response of type OAuthException: It looks like you were misusing this feature by going too fast. You’ve been blocked from using it.</p>
    
    <p>Learn more about blocks in the Help Center. (code 368, subcode 1390008)</p>
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  <p>The block is gone the next day, but after a similar amount of operations it's back. After a couple of hours later, when the block is gone again, I introduced 6 second delays between operations, but that didn't help and after 19 re-posts I'm blocked again. Some facts:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>I am publishing posts to a feed of (yet) unpublished page I am the (only) owner of.</li>
  <li>The app is a standalone JAVA application and uses <a href="http://restfb.com" rel="noreferrer">restfb</a> to work with Facebook.</li>
  <li>The line that is causing the error: facebookClient.publish("me/feed", FacebookType.class, params.toArray(new Parameter[0]));</li>
  <li>All publish operations contain a link, mostly to respective posts on out Tumblr. Some contain message, caption or a name (depending on post type).</li>
  <li>I need to re-post ~900 posts from Tumblr, I have done ~250 so far. When over, I will likely put in on server, scheduled, to keep syncing single new posts.</li>
  <li>This app is not meant to be used publicly, it is rather a personal utility (but the code will be posted to GitHub, should anybody need it).</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>This is my first experience with Facebook API and I wasn't able to find a place where I could officially address them with this question. I could proceed by doing 100 posts/day, but I'm afraid I will eventually get banned for good, even though I don't feel like doing anything wrong.</p>
  
  <p>I haven't put any more code here, as the code itself does not seem to be a problem, but rather the rate at which it is executed.</p>
  
  <p><strong>So, should I proceed with 100 posts/day and hope I won't be banned, or is there another "correct" way of dealing with this?</strong></p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance!</p>