What is your experience with brand mentions on reddit recently? What is the line after which your account is safe?

Hi guys
I've been into reddit marketing for half+ year using my personal account on a phone. no proxies, nothing. it's been going great, I farmed some karma and was able to mention my client almost every day.
But lately reddit banned my main and I started using an antidetect browser, proxy, separate ip, farm cookies, and the result on this account is almost the same after the first mention it is instatly banned. I don't even understand why it happen, the topic I engage in is totally relevant and asking for app recommendation. So after my main banned I'm useless for 2 months now. Each account I farm is banned.
I also buy accounts with karma 3 months old to use.
How do you handle it? Do you expience the same? any advice?

I think the problem is probably not the browser/proxy setup. If the first mention gets the account banned, Reddit may already be detecting the promotion pattern, not just the login environment.
Try warmup the account first, maintaining normal activity but not replying for a few days, then try again?

Invictus said:

real iphones fixed this for me completely

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i also have been banned from a different device after 2 weeks farming. 150 karma. After first mention - ip ban.
How long do you do normal activity before you start doing brand mentions?

PhoneGrid said:

I think the problem is probably not the browser/proxy setup. If the first mention gets the account banned, Reddit may already be detecting the promotion pattern, not just the login environment.
Try warmup the account first, maintaining normal activity but not replying for a few days, then try again?

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i've been warming up every account for a few weeks

From my perspective you can never feel safe. At the very least they can delete some of your messages and then ban whole account. I have cases of account bans only for local mentions that are completely okay in particular topics.

I've experienced something similar. Reddit seems to look at overall account behavior, not just age or karma. Even with an aged account, being too promotional or changing posting patterns too quickly can lead to actions against the account, so I've had better results by keeping participations as natural as possible.

Reddit seems much stricter with new accounts than it used to be.

From my recent experience, brand mentions on reddit are a high-risk, high-reward game, especially because the platform is now a primary source for AI search results, the entire ecosystem has changed, with marketers flooding the site with fake reviews and stealth promotional content just to get cited by tools like ChatGPT, reddit is fighting back aggressively using AI to block spam views and fake votes every day, meaning the old ways of sneaking in mentions are getting caught much faster.

The bad news is that there's no single magic line where your account is suddenly safe, but the real threshold is often your account age, not your karma score, I've seen accounts with good karma on a brand new account get banned instantly, the persistent pattern is that accounts under thirty days old are automatically filtered out, while an account with low karma but a couple of months of age survives easily, you need to treat reddit like a reputation network, not a social media platform, by building credibility first before you ever mention your brand.

The safest strategy is to actually make your presence official, consider starting your own subreddit where you have control, and always use your real brand name instead of hiding behind a fake account, you want to make most of your contributions purely helpful, and only a small part can include brand mentions, and only when they directly help the person asking, respect the culture, read the specific rules of each subreddit, and show up consistently with genuine value over the long haul, because that's the only way to survive.

what i believe through my experiences, a trusted account with genuine participation can usually mention brands naturally without issues, while new accounts pushing promotions. i would say good approach is building account trust first

andrii.anubarak said:

i've been warming up every account for a few weeks

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sorry to hear that, that might be because of the brand mentioned. Reddit's risk control measures have become increasingly strict recently, and the system's mechanisms for recognizing AI-generated copy and detecting bulk promotional content have improved significantly. If a large number of accounts repeatedly use the same brand name at the same time, the system will directly judge it as mass marketing, and the blocking will be significantly strengthened. Ordinary accounts are more likely to be mistakenly penalized.

stick to one genuine account, post helpful stuff that’s clearly relevant, don’t mass-repeat the same promo and follow subreddit rules
it's that simple!

I've definitely seen more people saying Reddit has become much stricter recently.
What's interesting is that sometimes a normal personal account seems to survive much longer than setups with proxies, antidetect browsers and multiple layers of protection. Feels like Reddit is getting better at spotting behavior patterns rather than just technical fingerprints.

Sometimes the account reputation matters more than the post itself building genuine activity over time can make a big difference.