Recent content by berringer

Reddit seems to be quickly occupying the niche that old forums used to, ie. a place where people can connect and discuss all kinds of things, in long form if they want, and while being completely anonymous. I think their only real competitor in a similar space is Quora, but I'm not sure that...

So I have three different case studies I can share. 1) The account I mentioned above: 3 year old account with good standing and no reports, 1500+ comment karma with which I was sending 20-30 DMs a day on average. Banned out of the blue one day for spamming DMs. 2) A 4-year account, also with...

Not sure about whether this is AI or not, but what OP shares is not unknown. It happened to me recently where a 3+ year old account with over 1000 comment karma was banned out of the blue just because I used a Nord VPN server. I've used many of their servers over the years with multiple accounts...

Thanks for your post! Could you please explain what you mean by 'never use the main admin account for any kind of external or internal activities'?

I've had a few accounts be shadowbanned over the last year and I did appeal, but got no response. One thing I learnt while reading up on appeals is that you can do so once a day, till you hear back from the admins. But don't be confident that they'll get back, I appealed day after day for a few...

Thanks so much for your detailed guide, this is really useful! I'm assuming you're talking about bought accounts here? I know it's almost mandatory to change the email soon after purchase to prevent any foul play, but wouldn't this be a red flag when an account suddenly logs in on a different IP...

Good analogy! Sad but true, and I can't help but agree going by what I've seen so far!

This sounds very promising, thanks for sharing your finds! What's the longest you've been able to use an account that you created using this set-up and is the account still working normally? Also, do you insert links when you first make the comments or later on? I'm assuming you've not had any...

Actually, contrary to popular opinion on here, it's not a problem at all when the account is aged (usually hits a sweet spot somewhere in the 6 month-1 year period), and has consistent organic activity over this period and no reports/warnings etc. I've done it with other accounts and they're...

I can vouch for what @petarapps says above. Had a 3 year old account with 1500+ comment karma that was recently banned for spamming DMs. No reports or warnings on the account at all. I must have sent around 20-30 DMs per day for more than a week, but where I screwed up was sending the same text...

Thank you! While on the topic, I had another related question and didn't want to create a new thread just for it. Is it safer to add an email to the profile description, in a similar obfuscated fashion? How about adding links there?

Do you know any way to tell such subreddits (with mostly bots as subscribers) from the others?

Yeah, I've been gravitating towards this too, seems to be the safest choice based on my research. Mind sharing more details of the setup/config that's worked best for you? Feel free to PM if it's not something you want to share in public. Thanks! I'm assuming one would need to know the...

Thanks! What's a recovery transfer plan? This has been my gut sense too after the research I've done so far, but if that's true then it's pretty useless to invest in high-karma, aged accounts and better to just make new accounts and gradually build them. By now, I'm really curious to know if...

So just for context, I've been on Reddit for many years and used to have a couple of high-karma accounts that I built organically over time, and each of them had over 8000 karma. They were banned recently due to ban evasion and took along with them a few other accounts I had made over time as...