Looks like there was a configuration issue on noteguard, i bumped the damus relay rate limit from 1 a minute to 6 a minute, I didn’t think 1 a minute was a lot but apparently it was!
Damus will keep retrying to write the note regardless so even at 1 per minute the note should get written eventually.
The damus does not rate limit read-requests, only writes. If we didn’t the disk would fill up in a couple hours and die by spammers.