I have never had an account banned yet, that's with using the program during the so-called "banning sweep" that took place that you might have seen. One thing is I don't send messages to people hardly ever and I still have thousands of video views and my subscribers goes up daily. Like the other poster mentioned, don't try to abuse the program and you will be fine and I'm sure that someone will jump in and say they followed everything to "T" and still got banned, my bet is they were sending mass messages which I don't see the point in doing since I get so many views/subscribers just from adding people.