Suspending my alt... for what? : reddit

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Suspending my alt... for what? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/reddit

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I made an account 3 years ago to make a single post, which I wanted to be anonymous for. I logged in again today as I wanted an account for... um... science, and discovered I was banned a year ago. I find this ban incredibly odd as

I did not log into this account for two years between the post and the suspension
They do not state what rule I broke, which is not standard in my experience
They do not offer the opportunity to appeal, which I also believe is not standard
They tell me to make a new account. If I broke their rules, why would they want me to make a new account? Temp ban makes sense. Permaban makes sense. This makes no sense.

The only explanation I can think of is that they want to bump the user count.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 7 months ago

Their bot detection must have realised that you're actually human.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 months ago

What's odd is that they tell you you're banned for breaking an unnamed rule then invite you to create another account. If it were an offensive username, you'd think they would just force you to change it. What's the point of banning an account then asking the banned member to create another account?

[–] Garbanzo 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they didn't like the username?

[–] Perhyte 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is probably the only type of rules violation that could be fixed by creating another account, so this was exactly my thought.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Username is completely clean. It was something along the lines of “BeautifulPuppies”.

[–] Pretzilla 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Possibly hacked and coopted account?

If rereddit or similar is still a thing, check the post history.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think so, the password was randomly generated

[–] Pretzilla 7 points 7 months ago

Still, give it a look. There's a scooby snack in it for you when you report back here

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If you have two reddit accounts, and one gets banned, if you log into the other on the app or on the web with the same device then that account will be banned as well.

[–] Perhyte 6 points 7 months ago

Then they probably wouldn't say it was okay to make another alt though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

My main has 10s of thousands of karma from a different time in my life and it’s not banned

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

... um... science

The best kind of science

also, why are you logging in to conduct your research? Log in is not required

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe using a vpn?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Even worse!!! Why log in, ESPECIALLY if using a VPN, lol. Defeats the purpose of using a VPN by being like "hey reddit this is still me, just using a new IP"

[–] Khanzarate 2 points 7 months ago

Because reddit has blocked guest VPN users lately.

Definitely defeats the point, but its deliberate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

This is becoming the norm. The ban system is totally broken as they're handing more and more tasks over to bad AIs. There are constantly tons of complaints from moderators about Reddit's various broken systems, including the ban system.

[–] Tag365 2 points 6 months ago

Seems like someone closed your account without your permission.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Are you using a VPN?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I find that extraordinary posts that may seem incredulous may have the account banned.