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That happened to me with Discord.

Signed up, logged in, then was banned.

Luckily I use throwaway emails for everything so I just made another.

Same, discord and twitter both banned. On discord someone wanted to chat, so I opened a PM chat with my new account and said hi. Super suspicious I guess. On twitter I liked a tweet and later wanted to post a tweet but by that point my account was banned. Liking a message is very suspicious also I guess. Bank account also denied with no reason given (Germany), and accounts that advertise with not having to pass the magic algorithm check have fees similar to a netflix subscription whereas the general public gets it free.

I'm surprised paypal hasn't banned me yet! I avoid using it whenever possible anyhow, I'll probably lose access to that sooner or later as well.

Somehow this wasn't a problem before the Internet. What did you have to do to get banned from access to networks of similar size to ebay/twitter, so like a national transport network I guess? It's almost unheard of. What causes this? I guess spam and fraud are the two categories. How do we fix this at the root instead of having secret judges, is having to show government ID to the ISP a solution so you can be convicted for fraud, and blocking non-compliant ISPs? Seems authoritarian as well.

Not banned but was shadowblocked from posting on Twitter a few years ago. There was nothing I had posted recently that was remotely controversial. Filed a ticket, got a response, and I could post again in a few days. As others have mentioned, the CSR probably doesn't even know why the block happened.

Twitter has a weird, dynamic and patriarchy shadowbanning, I suppose to steer general directions of the platform out of nerd/anime/tech into politics and rage so to diversify, if I were to heavily sugarcoat it. Which have worked in case their goal was to exit to Elon.

I also got "banned" from twitter. (They actually just told me I couldn't use it again until I sent them some form of government ID - no thanks.) Never even posted a comment, only used it to read and like tweets periodically. Had it for maybe two years before they pulled this shit on me.

Did you consider the possibility that the throwaway email account is what caused your account to be flagged?

I also only use strictly throwaway emails. If a website finds it fishy, they will tell you while you are attempting to create an account (in which case I just dont use a random string and use random words instead). Back when I was in the coversion process, several accounts were frozen when i switched from a real to throwaway email. Each time I just emailed customer service with the custom email, they realized I'm not a bot and as long as I could pass dual verification (which I can because I'm me), they unfroze my account and occasionally apologize.

How would Discord know it was a throwaway email?

I use Fastmail + their masked email feature with a legit DNS, not a random one time email gen site.

Oh well if Fastmail says its legit, surely nobody could ever detect anything like that...

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