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What were you posting?

I've used a VPN constantly and I have a Reddit account in the 15-year club, it hasn't been an issue.

I haven't seen any issues with my 10+ year old accounts. They are probably marked as safe and only newer accounts at risk.

Probably my 10 years + verified email + MFA + never using a public VPN saves me a lot of grief in the abuse detection algorithm lottery.

No posts in the control account. Just VPN exit points "switching"

But couldn't it be that this specific behavior triggered a spam warning? I have no insight into Reddit regarding security, but would expect new/fresh and empty accounts under special scrutiny and when an account like that hops from IP to IP this would - if I were to build a heuristic at least trigger an alarm/ban/temporary lock of voting/posting functions.

Just an idea regarding your latest test. The part of the main account sucks - I am with you on that.

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