10 months ago
Tues Apr 8, 2025 5:36pm PST
Ask HN: Reddit account banned almost one year ago – unable to create and use new
Silly original ban from an even sillier sub on reddit (/r/soccer - I know, I know! ;-), which, due to my complaint in other related subs about the /r/soccer, "ended" my multi year, multi 10K karma account on that platform. Learned my lesson, so tried to create a new account, and forget about the childish arguments on that sub, and the sub, itself.

Problem? After having created a new account, then posting, after a few days, to some sub, and receiving an instantaneous new "ban" (account "disappearing" from /u/<username>), I thought maybe it was because I used the same email as previous account, and maybe some high-ups on reddit were thinking I was trying to maliciously by-pass some restrictions on creating new account, post a recent ban. So I waited a little, then created a new account, using a new email address, and new browser - just in case (again - absolutely no malicious intent - just trying to get back to a platform where there are some points of interest to me). Same thing: few days later, and first post - ban! I have since attempted to use another 2-3 diff email addresses, increased the time before posting the first time (up to a month), changed browsers and VPN end points, to no avail. Every time I post once, the account is automatically and instantaneously removed (i.e. /u/<username> is no longer avail, when seen from another browser. Tried also through some of the apps (e.g. RIF), to same outcome. Questions:

1. What in the world is triggering this automatic ban, no matter agent ID, source IP, or email address?

2. Is there really no way one could get back on reddit, once banned? Especially looking at the silliness of the source of such, as I mentioned it to the admins ...

Of course I tried to appeal multiple times, from each account newly created and automatically banned, but there has never been a reply from the admins.

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