Reddit shadow banned and banned every new account I tried with a VPN.
I know Reddit now has a stupid rule or policy about new accounts posting or commenting. They punish new users for just trying to have a conversation. Why does Reddit hate privacy? Is it just in the system trying to filter out bots? Well, it is doing a shitty job since bots are still a high percentage there. Reddit banned me, even when I was on the new user friendly subs. I tried with multiple locations with a VPN too. This has to make people go to other platforms. Like I did, I moved here.
Been that way for a long long time. They used to be open source, and the they closed the source, and it's been all downhill from then.
I didn't realize it was that bad until people telling me on here.
yep. it got ESPECIALLY bad when they IPO'd.
Reddit is fucking stupid as shit. You'd do best to not waste any more of your life thinking about it.
This might be the best advice I have seen on here, lol.
Banning is Reddit's default behaviour now. Unless you're a bot. If you're a bot, you'll have no problem, since you can be counted as an advertising click, thus increasing revenue. The more bots, the more money. Reddit's gaming its own system. Humans only fuck it up for them.
I assumed that system was to evade the bots...
Once upon a time.
About what's Reddit's intention, I can only conjecture, but I get the impression they are intentionally self-sabotaging. And trying to think who or how someone would benefit from this, the only thing that comes to mind is that they're destroying the legacy of the biggest public forum.
This, extrapolating, would potentially force people to go to platforms that require accounts, which sounds even more suspicious when considering the verification laws and policies that are increasingly being pushed since around October last year.
About VPN, Reddit apparently does IP bans and automatically considers a new account made in a same IP of a banned account as an evasion attempt, which given VPNs, spreads like a disease, like they're setting up a digital pandemic - or should I say "a plandemic".
@Auster @Anonymous_Leaker What is the solution?
don't use reddit...?
One option would be to use a single, real IP and never any other ones and hope you don't break any unsaid rules from Reddit.
The other would be to accept Reddit doesn't want people in its platform, and at most follow people and communities there through RSS, mirrors or manually.
Maybe someone with an unfair ban could try contacting their support, but I've yet to see anyone report back if they tried and how it went.
I made sure the IP's were all different, but it was the same VPN service.
IPs may be shared among users though. If another user tried the same but made a previous, blacklisted IP visible, he may have tarnished one of the VPN IPs too.
Yes I did realize that as well. Out of all of them, at least one of them might be flagged.
@Anonymous_Leaker I have been facing the same issue. Reddit is shadowbanning my account and suspending my account of Reddit. I don't what to do?
Leave the site of garbage like I did. You can do an appeal, but it is probably not real people looking at them.