I've been perma banned twice, I'm feeling cute though maybe I'll go for a third.
this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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I was permabanned for “repeated violations on my other account”, despite me only having the one account. I have no idea wtf I did wrong, the automod refused my appeal and they haven’t responded to the email I sent requesting an explanation yet.
I was recently on public Wi-Fi somewhere, which is the only explanation I can think of.
EDIT: Oh, they just don’t check the email anymore and leave everything up to AIs. Great.
Had almost the exact same experience, although I never bothered to create a new account. Tried & tried to find an appeal process, as far as I can tell they don't have one. Still not sure why I was banned.
On the upside, I was looking for a reason to leave, and they gave it to me on a silver platter.
I'm very familiar with the situation. I was a Reddit user for 3 years. I have a pet project that turned into a small startup for me. I wrote about it in a suitable subreddit where people discussed startups. In the end, I got banned. It's unclear why. I tried creating new accounts several times, but I was banned almost immediately. I didn't receive any reasons for the ban via email. I just got fed up. I decided to look for another place to communicate because I was simply tired of it. I have already switched to Pixelfed, Mastodon, and now Lemmy. No more Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, no more algorithms. I'm happy!
If they auto-ban every account you make, you should set up an auto-dialer of account making so they ban every available username eventually. Then nobody can register, and you'll be a hero lol
You joke but every username is already in use because bot farmers were smart enough to use some cheapo proxies for their traffic lmao
its all censoring for corpos and instagram/tiktok like video posts anyway nowadays. this place here is so much less rage inducing (by design, the userbase and their behaviour is just a result of that in the end)
I gave up on appeals. Website thinks my accounts were created after a site suspensions. I've never been suspended so i can only guess being on hotel wifi triggered it.
you know its done by an AI if you dont get the incident of the ban, like they usually tell you what triggered. Like ban evasion, they usually tell you your previous account did it.
in anycase like many of us, early this year a bunch of redditors was hit by a massive ban wave, multiple accounts each 5+years olds were all instantly banned with the "no-message". then the massive random shadowbans that have occured too.
i heard appeals can take months before an admin even reads it, i think most get ignored though.
Also if your not using an appealing the original account they tend to ignore the shadowbans/permabans of the new accounts. any new account creation after a shadowban, will instantly get shadowbanned, so dont bother.
they also keep a record of any of your old deleted accounts, if they participated any a sub that decides to ban you, so any new accounts even years old will be banned.
Reddit is dead.
It's mostly bots now.
its always been bots, but reddit hasnt done this excessive banning ever,.
they probably think they're purging the underperforming bots.
Lemmy will be infested of bots at some point as well. That’s sad but inevitable
If you stay out of big communities, Reddit is nice
i noticed reddit recently changed the sub to "besT" it showed only old post, its partially dead at this point. politics/ and news related subs are usually the only super-active subs.
This is a silly/ridiculous narrative that simply isn't true.
I'm on both places, and have been doing my best to grow things on the Lemmy side for ~2yrs now, but Reddit is still invaluable to me for plenty of fresh and authentic talk across a number of subjects. Yes, botting may be a problem here and there, and power-tripping mods exist (at both places, actually), but overall Reddit is still a robust, useful site.
Now, do I like forward to the Fediverse growing and attracting more users over time to more and more niche communities? ABS-SO-LUTELY.
But I think we have to make that happen by producing quality comments, posts and communities, not by declaring false victories, nor by making completely disingenuous comments.
Most of the posters are bots recycling content from years ago, same post title, image, and everything.
Most commenters are definitely chatbots these days.
i heard on several subs, many complained about bots. like aww, pics,damthatsinteresting , interestingasfuck.
Ignore the above poster, it is mostly bots now
Bullshit.
I've been on Reddit for 9yrs, and have seen loads of recycled post content, which is definitely a thing. Even for the karma-farmers, though, there's at least a usefulness in bringing interesting content to new users who hadn't seen it before. And yeah, sometimes bots will replicate comments in such threads from years earlier. This is also a thing.
But across my ~dozen curated streams I see about 10% of that stuff, and 90% actual fresh content, including actual commenters that one can interact with if one merely tries. (have you?)
So part of my point is this-- if you're browsing vanilla Reddit and complaining about the experience, then you're telling me that you haven't made any significant attempt to set up your Reddit acct properly, up to and including failing to set up RES properly.
And if so, what you're telling me in short here is that you don't know what you're talking about.
I have to completely disagree. I spent a long time building up karma on my account, thousands of posts, contributing to my favorite communities, and one snarky comment on a ragebait post got my account banned by a reddit admin on a power trip. Multiple appeals later, it's still banned. There's no sensible reason to justify a site-wide permaban on an account with such a long history of constructive posts for one snarky post that caused someone to be insulted.
Their admins are absolutely deranged and yes it completely ruins the entire website. It's basically insufferable to continue using reddit. The power-tripping admins have flushed the entire site down the toilet. Lemmy is the best alternative at the moment, and supposedly it should be basically impossible to get banned from all of lemmy. I think the worst you can get here is an instance ban? 513 instances so far. You would have your work cut out for you.
You're not disagreeing with anything I said. You're talking about a completely different issue which I'm certainly sympathetic to.
Because I do get the sense that users are more easily banned these days at the admin level. Having slow or non-existent customer service doesn't seem to be helping either, based on the anecdotes you all are sharing.
Btw, feel free to list or PM me your Reddit account name. I can run it past some reputation checkers to check it out...
My main was vtuber-love. I also posted under isekai-hero and DemonLordDoom.
https://www.reddit.com/user/vtuber-love/ https://www.reddit.com/user/isekai-hero/ https://www.reddit.com/user/DemonLordDoom/
I have filed multiple appeals and contacted the mods using several alts. The last message I got suggested I've been banned for "multiple repeated content violation under my alternate accounts" or something like that, which I think means they're keeping my ban in place because I posted under alts while my main was banned.
But the ban on my main account was bogus. Which puts them in a catch-22. If my main account didn't deserved to be banned, then I wasn't breaking any rules by posting on alts.
It seems like they just have a stick up their butt. I have apologized multiple times. I've informed them I never plan to post on that subreddit ever again. I've suggested a temporary ban instead, like 1 week would be fine. But nothing seems to get through to them. How can they be so completely inflexible?
My goodness...
Sorry if you felt I was rude, above, mate.
I'll try to take a closer look when I get a chance. :S
Good hunting, in any case!
Ok bot🥸🥸🥸
I've been permabanned on several occasions and just mess with my vpn with a new account and boom everything is fine.
Power tripping mods will just permaban willy nilly so I will reciprocate by fucking with them and teasing them about how I've been banned before and how they are absolutely powerless in the grand scale of things.
Same thing happened to me. Got shadow banned and didn't even do anything this time
you're not the only one, if you visited the r/shadowban people have reported the same thing.
The thing that really pisses me off was there was this person who was saying a 13 year old can consent to sex with a grown adult and that there was nothing wrong with it and they aren't shadow banned. I reported them and nothing happened to their account, but I'm banned probably becwus I called someone stupid or something. I loved reddit but I'm done with it
So my comments get removed because I don't think like some of the others on this thread. You don't see anything wrong w this?
Your comments were removed because of bigotry. DeAl W iT
The only thing wrong is that the mod also removed people's comments opposing your straight up bigotry
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