I was banned once my own sub began to gain traction on the platform, and my 3 other (completely unrelated) accounts were banned as well. If you look at the reputation across those accounts built over years that suddenly vanished, it's easy to see how one would willingly pay to have them re activated by crooked admins.
Reddit leadership knows this is happening, many subreddits have been banned and orphaned. Reddit also makes everyone upload their content to IMGUR instead of being able to point to youtube links, so technical the majority of their content isn't credited or linked to anything that can account for it.
I chose to simply not go back really, just registered a lurk account. The quality of the site has tanked, and their IPO will likely not do much anyway. Karma always catches up with bad practice.... Spilled milk... I just maintain my own site now, which has all the features and better control/metrics for me anyway. On my own site I get much better views as well than I ever did on my Subreddit.