VS Code and Visual Studio extensions marked as spam

Question

Hello,

On 4 novemeber, I posted 5 extensions for VS Code and 5 extensions for Visual Studio. They are related to a suite of 5 apps (drawmaid, drawtabase, drawlize, drawuml, drawpenapi) under the same vendor (drawdiags).

The next day, on 5 november, they were marked as spam, removed from the marketplace, and I haven't got any notification about that. Also, my email and my IP address was also marked as spam. I am getting the following error, after a successfull login:

"
429 - Woah, that's a lot of requests

You might be blocked due to the number of requests exceeding our rate threshold. Please try again later.

11/8/2026 8:25:43 PM (UTC)

316db187-2df1-40ca-8ccc-828c470ea59f
"

I would really appreciate your help!

Thank you,
Mihai

Answer 1

Hi @Mihai Pescaru ,

Thank you for sharing the details. Publishing 10 similar extensions on the same day is very likely what triggered the Marketplace's automated spam detection, which removed the extensions and restricted your account.

The Visual Studio Marketplace team can review your account and help restore your account. You can get their email by signing in at https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/, going to Manage Publishers & Extensions, and selecting Contact Microsoft in the top-right corner:

Please include:

• Publisher ID: drawdiags, and the names of the 10 extensions
• The publish and removal dates of the extensions
• The 429 error details, including the timestamp and request ID
• A short explanation that the extensions belong to one product suite, and how each one differs

Please note that, in similar cases, the Marketplace team has applied a cooldown period of about 30 days before reviewing a reinstatement request. I still recommend that you email them now, so your case is on record. If they ask you to wait, you can follow up after the cooldown period.

Once the restriction is lifted, I recommend that you don't publish all of your extensions on the same day. Instead, publish them one or two at a time over several days to avoid triggering the spam detection again.

If you found my response helpful or informative, I would greatly appreciate it if you could follow this guide for your confirmation.

Thank you.