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No warning, not even a "Don't do it again email" - I had a work account, that was logged in on my works laptop, I made a comment critical of Netanyahu, and the Gaza genocide, which got that account banned from /pics. This was months ago, then I made a comment on pics, on my main account. That's it, gone, banned.

I even have another spare account, from 2008, logged in to that, that's banned too. FFS!

No luck on appeals, so I guess no more reddit, ever again. Anyone managed to get around this?

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[-] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Your mistake wasn't making the comment, it was that it caught the eye of an admin's alt. It's why r/worldnews goes to shit anytime anything Israel related is ever mentioned, and it's such a sticking point for the admins that they basically had to throw away everything they had built up with the worldnews Q&A and interviews. They even used to pass off admin actions as that of the mods until eventually after getting enough backlash they just promoted the karmawhore mods willing to be loyal to them and forced the rest to leave.

They don't want users or subscribers anymore, they want a product. They don't give a shit how many years you were a member, and they secretly hope you do end up registering with an alt. It's basically a stick to implicitly train you to avoid those topics if you want to continue participating.

If you want to go back to reddit, your best bet is to run on a VM with a different yet standard resolution and to try to mask all the data your browser leaks about you (why there isn't a browser that already does this is ridiculous). Different timezone, location, etc. Tracking doesn't matter as long as you don't use it with your main account. Cycle your IP, which is usually simply turning off your ISP router for a while then turning it back on again, don't really need a VPN unless they want to start banning whole geographical locations. If everything works out, congratulations, you have become yet another organic user reddit has turned into being indistinguishable from fake bot users.

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