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?

  • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    You don’t go to Reddit to promote anything. All you do is promoting stuff to bots.

    Anyway, what’s your game?

    • TheSoftCringe@lemmy.worldOP
      112·
      3 days ago

      I originally joined Reddit just to share my game, maybe build a small community around it. But after five bans for doing absolutely nothing wrong, my goal has changed. Now I just want to let as many people as possible know how broken Reddit really is.

        • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          2 days ago

          This is probably it. Right after the inauguration, they went crazy, permabanning everyone who said anything slightly controversial. It was a bloodbath. I had a 12 year old account, with nearly a million Karma, and I was permabanned for repeating a comment that I had made numerous times without an issue.

          You were probably banned then, and once you are banned, they will ban every new account you open. It’s not hard, they just flag your IP address, and when the algorithm spots it, it automatically bans it.

          Reddit is awful these days anyway. Just hang at Lemmy. Less puns, bots, trolls, Russian Propaganda Farmers, MAGA Morons, 4Chan refugees, etc. Reddit is turning into the forum version of white supremacist Xitter.

        • TheSoftCringe@lemmy.worldOP
          82·
          3 days ago

          They never told me what the first ban was for. Just silence. So yeah — I kept trying, like any human would.

  • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    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.