I got into this situation because something was marked as harassment on my Reddit account, which banned me for 3 days. I had no intention to cause harm, I was just correcting someone over a movie detail that involved transgender but did not criticize trans people at all, but that’s not the issue. For some reason, I panicked, wasn’t thinking straight, and proceeded to delete that account and make a new one, which is ban evasion. I’m stupid, and for some reason I thought I could make a new account and it’d be fine. I didn’t even need Reddit at that time or used it very often at all, so I don’t know why I did that. My account got shadow banned a few hours later, which is permanent. What I did was stupid, and I regret my decisions. I’ll stay away from anything remotely controversial next time, and I won’t create accounts to circumvent the ban again. I never had a malicious intent though, I just want to use Reddit to ask specific questions, socialize about interests, and help others. I contacted Reddit through a support ticket a few times (once a week) and it has been almost a month, yet there is no response, though I’ve heard it can take several months for a response, if they respond at all, and I could possibly be filing too many tickets. I think it disabled me from logging into the banned account to appeal, so I can’t appeal another way. Since I broke the ToS, I am wondering if there is any hope for me. I consider Reddit to be useful in some aspects so it is a bit of a bummer, but it is the consequences of my actions I guess. A permanent life ban is a lot though :/ but it’s just a website. It’d be nice to get my account back which is why I am asking, but I totally understand if I can’t use Reddit again. Reddit sucks overall but it can be useful sometimes. I’ll move on though
What should you do?
MOVE ON
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Let’s choose another word.
He sounds kinda Trumpy
I got a life ban for saying idiots riding their motorbikes on pavements deserved a slap.
Reddit is shit.
Got a week long ban for saying Religion is like a penis… It should stay out of children’s mouth because I was posting a paedophile comment. Luckily at the time the appeal process was still working.
Nowaday, you’re better us. If you want to be back on reddit, wait for a few month, there is some chances that by then you don’t get flagged as ban evasion anymore
I’m not bothered about trying to get back now I’ve discovered Lemmy. I did try and evade the ban but they must have flagged hardware info. Despite registering with a VPN and fake email I got shadow banned immediately
My wife uses reddit so don’t want her getting caught up in the ban
I think using a VPN at all on Reddit gets you instantly banned now.
That’s complete nonsense. I have only accessed it via a VPN for the last 2 years.
Explains a lot i guess
You’re better off without it tbh. This is coming from someone who had an account on there for 13 years, it used to be okay, but big corps, bots, and especially the owner Spez absolutely ratfucked it into a shadow of its former self. It’s no longer reliable as a source of information or entertainment since it’s roughly 60% bots by volume. You never know if you’re actually talking to a real person on the other end.
If you really want to get back, you’re going to have to be careful about it. You can use a VPN on a device you’ve never accessed reddit on before, and you will likely not be detected. But again you have to be really careful. Even so much as opening a reddit link with your new account logged in on a device/IP your banned account was on almost guarantees your new account will get permbanned within a couple of days. They are unreasonably heavy-handed with ban evasions.
I got a ban for harassment because I messaged someone on Vinted about a basket they were selling
I got my 15yo account banned for saying Palestinians have a right to defend themselves, they claimed I was inciting violence. Never had any account strikes or warnings.
I refreshed my IP and created a new account and never had any problems with ban evasion
I got shadowbanned from Reddit a few months before I left. I didn’t even know that shadowbanning was a thing. As soon as I learned why my posts weren’t getting any replies at all ever, I emailed in to ask why, and got a canned reply saying that they aren’t going to go into detail. I still have absolutely no idea why it happened. So I just deleted my account and moved over here.
Wait a year and make a new account. Or don’t. I recommend the latter.
If I were you, I would wait like 4 weeks. Then I would install a fingerprint resistant web browser on your PC, and double check that you aren’t getting fingerprinted.
Then use your phone’s internet connection via mobile hotspot or USB tethering to create a new account. NEVER use this new account from your regular internet connection or regular browser.
Maybe it will work.
You are banned from reddit for life for asking if you are banned outside of reddit.
The sunglasses and suits guys will be around shortly to beat up your computer and teach it a lesson about where it gets its shitty memes from.
You are permabanned, IP banned, and device banned. Ask me how I know.
How do you know?
I’m permabanned!
Yeah I was guessing. Most people here are permabanned from Reddit :/
I am sorry, but this is simply not true. The most people on Lemmy I met, I believe, do consider their privacy, federation/decentralized features and open-source state of the platform, fairly ad-free environment, and not to mention purely customizable clients to participate over the standard and open protocols involved. Meanwhile, they have functional accounts on Reddit, too.
Please do consider the undefined infinitely unique environments of infinitely magnificent people around the world…
I meant people in this comment section
Fuck reddit
Exactly my first thought too.
Lemmy is already better. Digg…isn’t any good yet. Maybe never will be again. Reddit though. Hot trash.
Most of the people here left Reddit on purpose, so you may be asking the wrong crowd. What I think you should do is never give Reddit another thought and share content here instead
A permanent life ban is a lot though, and I feel bit ashamed :/
What??
You should be proud of it. Print it on a T-Shirt!
Don’t waste your time and move on. I was banned because the algorithm doesn’t understand sarcasm and nobody care if you try to appeal. In fact, the appeal system itself is broken.
It’s broken? That sucks.
I’m polite saying it’s broken, I rather than think it’s intentionally broken. The users base is so large they don’t care about appeal anymore. It’s too time consuming.
Username checks out.
How do you connect to the internet? If it’s cable internet or something similar and you don’t have a static IP address, reboot your router until you have a new IP address and then try making a new throwaway email and using that to make a new reddit account.
But really you should just ditch reddit and if you want to view it without logging in or interacting that is always still possible.
