I’ve had 5 Reddit accounts banned over the past couple of months. I wasn’t spamming. I wasn’t self-promoting. I didn’t post links. I just… talked to people.
My posts were things like: – Photos of my cat – A conversation about burnout in r/CasualConversation – Responding to comments politely
Each time, the account got suspended out of nowhere. No warning, no explanation. I filed appeals — no answer. I tagged @RedditSupport on Twitter — silence.
I’m an indie game developer. I wasn’t even promoting my game. I was trying to be a part of the community. Reddit punished me for using the site as intended.
I know I’m not the only one who’s been through this.
If Reddit is hostile to new users, what future does it have?
they have been banning people the same way to, early in the year, they were banning peoples multiple accounts all at once. they were finding old accounts that may have participated in one or more subs your other accounts you were banned in, also another reason is they were linking different strangers account as spam, so it was a bulk spam. and they are using AI to indiscriminately doing it.
with a permaban you maybe able to temporarily avoid being filtered, if you dont participate in a sub you were previously banned int. but if you were shadownban, its much harder to get around that.