Got banned off redit for using an alt to comment on publicfreakout which I was supposedly banned from
If you were banned from a Reddit sub you’ve never posted or commented on, you won’t receive a message informing you you’ve been banned. Mostly likely cause for being banned from a sub you’ve never used is the sub using a bot to preemptively ban people it sees as “problematic” - usually but not always these bots are configured to ban anyone who has ever commented on a list of “bad” subs determined by the mod setting up the bot, regardless of content or context. There are some others, like certain porn subs will preemptively ban any account they detect that has an OnlyFans link.
The net result is if you comment on any remotely controversial sub in any context you’ve likely been banned from one or more unrelated subs, possibly without your knowledge.
This is hypothetically against the mod rules, but not enforced in any way. Mostly because of which subs tend to do it and which subs tend to be targeted.
Yeah it was a suprise to me, the issue only happened because I use an alt too, which is allowed, if its an instant permanent ban they should also disallow alts or block you from posting/commenting their on alts same way they auto ban, idk it just felt very automated and the admin response was also instantly a no, if I wanted to evade a ban itd be for a good subreddit not public freakout lol and not on a post with thousands of comments where mine is just a blip, no reason for them to care tho I dont make them money
If you were banned from a Reddit sub you’ve never posted or commented on, you won’t receive a message informing you you’ve been banned. Mostly likely cause for being banned from a sub you’ve never used is the sub using a bot to preemptively ban people it sees as “problematic” - usually but not always these bots are configured to ban anyone who has ever commented on a list of “bad” subs determined by the mod setting up the bot, regardless of content or context. There are some others, like certain porn subs will preemptively ban any account they detect that has an OnlyFans link.
The net result is if you comment on any remotely controversial sub in any context you’ve likely been banned from one or more unrelated subs, possibly without your knowledge.
This is hypothetically against the mod rules, but not enforced in any way. Mostly because of which subs tend to do it and which subs tend to be targeted.
Yeah it was a suprise to me, the issue only happened because I use an alt too, which is allowed, if its an instant permanent ban they should also disallow alts or block you from posting/commenting their on alts same way they auto ban, idk it just felt very automated and the admin response was also instantly a no, if I wanted to evade a ban itd be for a good subreddit not public freakout lol and not on a post with thousands of comments where mine is just a blip, no reason for them to care tho I dont make them money