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Reddit has me on some sort of ban that causes accounts to be permanently suspended within 24 hours of account creation regardless of what I do with that account, even if it's just make it and leave it alone. Also, anyone that comes to my home and connects to my wifi and then their reddit account will find their account permanently suspended within 24 hours. I've reached out to them multiple times to see what is happening and what can be done about it but get a boilerplate "your ban will be upheld" message from them with a link to the content rules so I can "prevent future bans".

I had over 40k useless internet points on that site before the ban and an 11 year old account but they refuse to help. Oh well.

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Reddit routinely shadowbans me and roommates because we'll see a post on /r/all and comment on it. It was way worse when I lived in a dorm. My upvotes/downvotes and submissions were completely broken. Took months for whatever anti-abuse system they have to unflag me.

Their anti-abuse is really bad. I once reported a serious doxxing with a death threat towards another user and after three weeks received a canned message saying something along the lines of 'Sorry, there's nothing we can do about the post. It will stay up.' This was circa 2019, when they already had a formalized 'anti-abuse' team. What exactly they do, I have no idea.

Have your ISP cycle/release->renew your IP address. Don’t attempt to sign in to any of the previous accounts from the new IP. Should avoid their anti evil team’s tooling as long as you’re not causing trouble.

This but also don't use any email previously associated with any account cause they will go and blacklist your new IP too.

Better yet, don't give them an email address at all. The UI would make most people think it's required, but it can be left blank. It will nag you for a while to add one too, but that banner can be removed with uBO.

Or just login to Reddit from as many possible public locations as you can, infecting their IPs also.

That's a whole other can of worms. I assumed that and asked ATT to do so and got the phone support equivalent of blank stares. I miss the old cable modem days where you could change the MAC address of the primary device attached to the ethernet port and force a new IP but not so with this Fiber ONT they gave me.

VPN. I've been pleased with Mullvad.

Except it pushes the problem onto someone else :). Though yeah I'd probably do it too in the end. Not everyone uses Reddit anyway

You may want to consider looking for malware on your network.

If you think it's your IP you could try pulling the plug on your cable/DSL modem for several hours or over night and you might get a new IP address.

You're better off my dude. Many ppl itt are rembering the ghost of reddit, it's dead and not coming back.

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