No warning, not even a "Don't do it again email" - I had a work account, that was logged in on my works laptop, I made a comment critical of Netanyahu, and the Gaza genocide, which got that account banned from /pics. This was months ago, then I made a comment on pics, on my main account. That's it, gone, banned.
I even have another spare account, from 2008, logged in to that, that's banned too. FFS!
No luck on appeals, so I guess no more reddit, ever again. Anyone managed to get around this?
I was the same. There was one sub I won't name where I made a comment against a celebrity (nothing bad, just making fun of her) and got banned.
I usually delete my Reddit accounts after a year just because I'm wary of how much info you can accidentally reveal about yourself.
Well, I'd made a new account and accidentally posted on the same sub which immediately got me a permanent ban for evasion.
My fault, but no real loss. For the last few years I rarely contribute and just use Reddit for info.
How do they even know it's both you in cases like this?
I think they use a lot of heuristics.
To test I made a new VM with fresh browser, running with a VPN and I still got banned, although it took slightly longer (maybe a few days).
It's possible though my VPN was used on my old account at some point though. But still.
IP addressses and hardware identifiers.
Actually a lot of it is browser fingerprinting.
yeah. i might give it a try when i swap to mint, but why. i'm done with reddit.