I was randomly banned without warning. I was posting and next thing I know, I had a message saying I’ve been suspended permentaly and to check my inbox. It was a generic message with “repeatedly violating multiple rules of conduct” and I was so confused. I followed their directions by checking my other account and i got nothing in it until hours later when I got that exact same message. Both appeals were denied. I’ve also contacted support but I hear they never respond back or it can take 2-3 months.
Has anyone been able to get their perm suspension uplifted or just create a new account and not get banned for ban evasion? How did you do it?
I’ve only been banned by device and email because my husband and son didn’t get banned. We all share the same wi fi.
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I left before the IPO, so no. From everything I’ve heard, they don’t have a process for ban reversals aside from their seemingly useless appeals “system”.
I might add, they’re showing you how much they value you with this opaque ban. Don’t go back to an abusive platform. Don’t give them value by adding to their MAU stats.
oh yea they are pretty arbitrary on ban appeals, some had success some dont. like if you had ban evasion, or multi-account botting, its probably not going to get approved. and recently the reasons for many bans is pretty nebelous, now they dont tell the infraction of the ban, that way its so vague they can interpret it as, “oh you did this here and here that banned you”.
recently a comment was removed from a niche sub from my account by a mod, and i was instantly shadowbanned.
Wait, many users are being banned right now?
I never ban evaded and I don’t know how I would multi bot. Reddit says we can have more than one account just as long as we don’t break the rules. I followed what their policy said. They even say make a new account if you don’t like your username but I’m afraid their bot will just ban you for posting in the same subreddits you did with your other account or if you get baned, your posts on your older account could show up as a ban evasion if one of the mods comes across your older post. I’m speculating this is how I was banned.
I guess shreddit all your comments first before moving onto a new account but what if reddit sees that as you trying to get around the rules and stuff when they said you would need to make a new account if you want to change your username.
from what ive seen the bans are so arbitrary, you dont even know what your being ban for, if you havnt violated any TOS rules. it could be a Subreddits filtering removing your comments triggering a ban. other things is if your using a VPN sometimes gets you flagged. but these 2 things are still ridiculous to result in a sitewide ban, shadowban is just as serious as a sitewide ban. its for these recent purges to be exact, so many occurred in FEB-MARCH.
alot of people are banned for evasion attempt, even that is kinda crazy too, usually they just perma-ban you from the sub, if you use another new acct to comment that of course will site wide ban you. but what they did is, temp ban some people then banned all thier accounts for ban evasion, retroactive bans, for example your temp ban was in a sub, and then it finds all your other accounts that commented previously in one or more subs they were banned in before with other accounts.
evasion got me but it seems so odd I doubt anyone did it on purpose, I just commented on an alt on the front page and got insta perma banned, its dumb af because if they can detect that why not just keep me from seeing that subreddit or being able to comment in the first place
I saw i had a proxy IP but I can’t even help that because it’s automatic and I have no idea how to change it. I’m tech illiterate. I know some places will ban you for a proxy. I’ve gotten that accusation before on a forum and I knew nothing about proxy IP. I only guessed that assumption came from me moving house 5 times in 1 year because I was a young adult. My parents, my own, my aunt and uncles, my ex, then my apartment and we have had to change internet providers a few times for cost. But the mods used that as a scapegoat to blame other issues in me other users did I didn’t do, especially when I got impersonated. Sorry for living lol. Humans move you know and access the internet wherever. Some people use a paid vpn to keep their IP consistent because they access the internet all over because they travel a lot for work.
Maybe I was banned for my proxy UP, who knows. I never ban evaded. I never created a new account to evade a ban. Both my accounts existed before the ban wave. I take website policies seriously. If I am so butthurt by someone, I block them and move on than following them and commenting on their posts or getting into petty arguements.
I haven’t been on reddit since i joined lemmy and i have zero interest in returning even though none of my accts were ever banned
You are shit outta luck friend.
Same exact shit happened to me. Both my accounts got banned without warning. Some nonsense about “violation of TOS”. I appealed asking what rule I broke and it was instantly declined.
I opened a new email on a new Internet source and made a fresh account. It got banned withing 30 minutes for “ban evasion”. I literally do not know how they even know it’s me. There was absolutely nothing that tied me to the old banned accounts. I used completely different information for everything and like I said a new Internet source as well as device.
They have your Internet fingerprint or whatever and you’re cooked for good. Enjoy your new life with lots of free time or just doing it all into Lemmy.
Fuck reddit and their ban happy bots.
If the Trump administration is over in 4yrs they may revert the bans. That’s all it’s down to, covering their own backs. They’ll Nazi up if it keeps their company afloat. Look at them all doing the same. It’s odd I can still access my account but perma ban is displayed… usually it would be “This account has been removed”. So go figure on that… I feel it is an act of display and an action that can be changed.
they do randomly unban people eventually, just not the serial repeaters. and they know they are in the wrong banning regular using with questionable “violations” that should be temp bans.
I hear they disable/delete your account but they let me keep mine. “Oh we will let you log in but you can no longer post. Oh we will let you vote still and play this nice little game for April Fools in r/field. Oh we will let you have a new account for a half hour to modmail the admins. Oh we will let you save posts and delete your own comments.”
My reddit experience right now.
they probably know people are pretty unhappy about all the bans they have been recieving, even for not violating policies.
No, leave reddit. The entire platform is /r/hailcorporate and spez is a garbage human being
