First of all most mods didn't make their communities.

Second of all, you're presuming the bans had anything to do with rules. You seem to assume, again, that people are only banned for breaking rules. The mods don't have to, and don't bother, telling you what rules you broke. That's official reddit policy. Mods are effectively in a higher strata than regular users, in which they get what they want, just for wanting it.

I can tell you why they ban me, I've seen it enough times now: particular mods don't like my tone and politics. One or the other, they might let slide, but the two together seems to irk them enough that they ban me without giving any reason. It's not just reddit mods, but mods of older style PHP boards as well. They just want to show me who's boss.

While I can recognize the part I play in the outcome of events, I'm also not inclined, on principle, to change how I think and type because of these power tripping mods.

They probably can't profile cell IPs because the collateral damage would be too great.

Of course that appeal got rejected because I didn’t explain the context above.

The repeal was rejected because they're never not rejected.

I posted info on effective ban evasion https://lemmy.world/post/52856407 , so far so good. IP address is by far the highest hurdle to clear these days, because of the crackdown on spammers. The universal weak spot with IPs is cell phones. It's too complicated to lock phone numbers to IPs since cell phones constantly move around, but I'm sure they would love to do this and might some day find a way to make it happen. But until that happens, it's the only back door, outside of paying good money for clean domestic IPs in your own timezone.

Reddit is fighting ban evaders with the same fire they used to go after bot networks, and probably losing a lot of valid, well meaning users in the process.

Why a ban and not a warning or content removal? Are we just getting used to the idea that we execute people as a first line of corrective action?

obnoxious people

The mods are obnoxious. And let's face it, you have to be in order to want to be a mod for free.

Yeah a lot of people seem to think that if you get banned from reddit, you must have been a Trump or Nazi apologist, but it all snowballs from one mod capriciously banning you from a subreddit, and then your alts all being burned for ban evasion.

I'm surprised that reddit has leaned so hard into the act of perma-bans and site-wide bans. These are high intent users. Only a finite proportion of the internet wants to use reddit over say, TikTok, Instagram, Discord, etc. These bans are costing them a resource that is unlikely to renew itself, as users go elsewhere and do different things with their lives.

If all bans were capped at thirty days, that would still suck sometimes, but accounts I've had since the late 2000's could be revived. I had one account with 100k karma before it got burned down for my political views + ban evasion. Subreddit mods could even have a bot that re-bans users after 30 days, that's still preferable to reddit itself causing a mass extinction of old accounts that were valuable to the people who created them.

From a time / money standpoint, it's costly to create an account on reddit. You have to have a certain account age and karma to even post in a lot of subreddits, which is an investment of time. Spammers replace time with money buy purchasing access to clean IPs, paying people to set up accounts and spam for karma. The only people who are going to create new reddit accounts, at this rate, are those expecting some kind of return on this time investment.

The good news is that reddit's growth in the US has slowed, while growth globally has climbed. That's good because US traffic is the most valuable, while overseas traffic, is often effectively worthless, like you can't sell anything to a lot of global traffic. This means reddits operating costs are increasing due to that higher overall site usage, while the rates of monetizable English speaking users is going flat.

I've seen some mention that reddit is embracing non English speaking users to acquire more users and content, but I can tell you as an Internet marketer, this move in general, among all who do it, is like trying to squeeze blood from a turnip, both because they're not valuable to advertisers, and users in places like Japan, Thailand, East Europe have already established usage patterns with LINE, Facebook, WhatsApp, Wykop, etc. The same network effect that keeps people like us stuck to reddit, keeps what little valuable international traffic there is, stuck to whatever they were already using.

The irony is that me, a real person, gets banned and banned some more, for saying something pro-Republican back in 2012, while these bot accounts spray slop all over the site with immunity.

Your best bet is to create a new account with no connection to the banned accounts. I made a how-to on how to do this https://lemmy.world/post/52856407 The downside is that you might have to do most of your redditing on your phone.

Maybe they will start profiling cell service IPs, but so far I've been in the clear with them. I think spam / proxy IP database lookups is weighing heavily in reddit's profiling. Using Claude I cam up with a reasonably seamless way to have Firefox and Brave on my home PC use my phone's data connection instead of my cable IP, which is very very static and long blacklisted.

I'm only on reddit for three or four subreddits. I was banned from two of them for moderate political views. Not surprisingly, my new account has not been banned by the subreddits I like, but other subreddits have banned my account using something I just learned existed called "/u/bot-bouncer" which is apparently a non-reddit service that somehow decides if a new account is a bot or not based on account age and post history analysis alone. Absolutely crazy. This of course increases the ban evasion threat considerably.

Fair enough, the Lemmy community it's exactly 0.3% the size of the reddit version, but I'll check in on it and participate.

I think the most likely causes that spamming is associated with your IP or another IP that is on the same network. The cleanest way to avoid Reddit IP based limits is to use a cell phone data connection

Alright I won't bullshit you. It's only the city subreddits I have issues with, and the lemmy versions have line one post per day. It's dead, and probably will never be alive.

I also belong to some, lets call them "support groups", and currently such groups don't exist on lemmy. I could start one, but again, I really don't expect that anyone would show up. Most people don't get banned by reddit enough to jump ship.

More like 100 karma ime

No, I was never a republican I'm just not a "blue no matter who" type of person

Try this https://lemmy.world/post/52856407

Is your account new or low karma?