From ~May, 15 Reddit is cracking down on account farms

brothatsfire · May 28, 2026

We have a farm with ~1,000 accounts that we warmup manually. For the past two weeks, completely random warmed-up accounts with 500 or more comment karma have been spontaneously getting shadowbanned, and we can’t find any pattern linking them. Sometimes these are even accounts from which no one has managed to post anything yet – no posts, no links, nothing. It’s just that every day a few accounts get shadowbanned without any discernible pattern. Previously, accounts with over 200–300 comment karma never got shadowbanned just like that, without a clear trigger such as posting a link. What could be the reason? Is this happening to you too? What should we look out for? I’m sure it’s linked to the Reddit update, but the problem is that these are completely random accounts from our farm and it’s very difficult to link them together based on any specific factor (proxies? Well, we use the same proxies on the other accounts too, so why are these ones being banned and not all of them at once? Upvotes? Well, we’re using the same control panel for all accounts, so why are these ones being banned and not all of them at once? And so on.)

Thanks.

yabuki · May 28, 2026

even if proxies are different the way accounts behave through the same control panel can create detectable patterns in request timing and action sequences.

Project Limitless · May 28, 2026

They've been tightening the screws for more than a year. How are you even running 1000 accounts 'manually'? There has to be some sort of automation or a tool that you're using that is responsible for your accounts getting shadowbanned.

brothatsfire · May 28, 2026

Project Limitless said:
They've been tightening the screws for more than a year. How are you even running 1000 accounts 'manually'? There has to be some sort of automation or a tool that you're using that is responsible for your accounts getting shadowbanned.

We have 10 people on the payroll who are warming them up.

yabuki said:
even if proxies are different the way accounts behave through the same control panel can create detectable patterns in request timing and action sequences.

how should we avoid this? Just your thoughts. Thanks

Project Limitless · May 28, 2026

brothatsfire said:
We have 10 people on the payroll who are warming them up.

That's still 100 accounts per person. Something is wrong with how they're operating the accounts. Because I have limited number of accounts that are operated manually and it's all fine.

brothatsfire · May 28, 2026

Project Limitless said:
That's still 100 accounts per person. Something is wrong with how they're operating the accounts. Because I have limited number of accounts that are operated manually and it's all fine.

How much you have per 1 person?

alonelywriter · May 28, 2026

Reddit started this previous year. I had karma and was using fresh proxies with anti detect browsers. I was farming by comments also.
If it is comment karma, there is a high chance someone from reddit sub reported you.

roseofsharonrosegirl · May 28, 2026

are you using Same network 4G/5G proxies it may too make such issue

brothatsfire · May 28, 2026

alonelywriter said:
Reddit started this previous year. I had karma and was using fresh proxies with anti detect browsers. I was farming by comments also.
If it is comment karma, there is a high chance someone from reddit sub reported you.

So, the most likely reason is a manual report from another Redditor?

alonelywriter · May 28, 2026

brothatsfire said:
So, the most likely reason is a manual report from another Redditor?

Yes, in my case it was the reason.

brothatsfire · May 28, 2026

alonelywriter said:
Yes, in my case it was the reason.

do you have any thoughts how to avoid it?

alonelywriter · May 28, 2026

brothatsfire said:
do you have any thoughts how to avoid it?

What i did after that was, I stopped farming a lot of accounts. Now i only use my own IP + own browser (no anti detect). I only post comments in subreddits in which I have interest in e.g. gaming, mangas etc.

By far, I have six accounts that are still live after 1 year.

GNews · May 28, 2026

Reddit farms are almost done.

The founders are ALL AWARE of sites like this and regularly check publicly advertised servcies .

If they start doing verification -- it will be 10x worse.

lifehacker24 · May 28, 2026

GNews said:
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Reddit farms are almost done.

The founders are ALL AWARE of sites like this and regularly check publicly advertised servcies .

If they start doing verification -- it will be 10x worse.

There are already verification in NSFW subs, it didn't change much. U can pass it if you know hacks

alonelywriter said:
Yes, in my case it was the reason.

I don't think it is the reason, because we warmed up new accounts a lot and they started to be shadowbanned after few comments similarly. I don't think anyone had time to report them

alonelywriter said:
What i did after that was, I stopped farming a lot of accounts. Now i only use my own IP + own browser (no anti detect). I only post comments in subreddits in which I have interest in e.g. gaming, mangas etc.

By far, I have six accounts that are still live after 1 year.

Also u telling here about 1 year range and about 1 acc, but this is a recent update of 2 weeks ago, which we also saw and we don't know what to do yet

hexagonal · May 29, 2026

Platforms are heavy on bot detection, there are more and more ways to detect a bot and a proxy is not enough.

Check that your TLS fingerprints are not leaking you.
Also if you are using browser emulators check this

https://2captcha.com/demo/cloudflare-turnstile
https://www.browserscan.net/es/bot-detection
https://fingerprintjs.github.io/fingerprintjs/

You should not be leaking anything a single detection and you are done.

antoniobardem · May 29, 2026

brothatsfire said:
We have a farm with ~1,000 accounts that we warmup manually. For the past two weeks, completely random warmed-up accounts with 500 or more comment karma have been spontaneously getting shadowbanned, and we can’t find any pattern linking them. Sometimes these are even accounts from which no one has managed to post anything yet – no posts, no links, nothing. It’s just that every day a few accounts get shadowbanned without any discernible pattern. Previously, accounts with over 200–300 comment karma never got shadowbanned just like that, without a clear trigger such as posting a link. What could be the reason? Is this happening to you too? What should we look out for? I’m sure it’s linked to the Reddit update, but the problem is that these are completely random accounts from our farm and it’s very difficult to link them together based on any specific factor (proxies? Well, we use the same proxies on the other accounts too, so why are these ones being banned and not all of them at once? Upvotes? Well, we’re using the same control panel for all accounts, so why are these ones being banned and not all of them at once? And so on.)

Thanks.

If your accounts use the same proxy is very easy for Reddit to detect them

lifehacker24 · May 29, 2026

antoniobardem said:
If your accounts use the same proxy is very easy for Reddit to detect them

how?

NirvanaWolf · May 29, 2026

If you want meaningful traffic from reddit, run limited accounts, all on phones, manually.

shijin · May 29, 2026

I’d compare banned vs alive by proxy ASN, browser/device family, account age bucket, first 20 subs touched, comment survival rate, upvote patterns, and last 48h activity, because the clue is probably not in one account but in the overlap

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