How to figure out what caused ban or shadowban?

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Hey everyone, I want to know how do you figure out what caused a ban or shadowban. Like I can do 20 comments and nothing will happen in next 4 hours and all of a sudden I wake up to see the account banned. How do you figure what has caused it?
 
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Unfortunately there's no way to know exactly why unless reddit notifies you, which they never do lol. You can only use your brain to think what have you done wrong, whatever you did what was your intent behind it and do you think that would breach their ToS
 
Is not a straight way to check if you are shadow banned unless you check to compare multiple accounts engagement. Usually if you post on large subreddits and don't see engagement or other fast interaction is a sign of shadown ban
 
Most of the time, no real way to know, especially with shadowbans. For regular bans and restrictions, unless a moderator explicitly tells you what happened or the platform gives you a specific reason, you're mostly left guessing from whatever generic explanation they provide. Even then, there's a lot of asterisks involved.

The fact that you made 20 comments then banned a few hours later could have done it on it's own, could have been any number of them or just one. Maybe it's spam, a false-positive, what have you.

So you can sometimes make an educated guess, but you generally can't know for certain unless the platform actually tells you.
 
That's the annoying part. Most of the time you never know what actually caused it. It's usually not one comment, but a bunch of things adding up.
 
accounts with limited history, repeated links or aggressive promotion are more likely to get flagged. The best approach is to keep activity natural, build account history gradually and avoid copy-pasting the same content.
 
In my experience, keeping notes on account activity helps a lot. When something goes wrong, you can compare it against accounts that remained healthy and identify what was different. That process has saved us a lot of trial and error.
 
Sadly reddit doesn't give a reason for shadowbans but you as the user will be able to tell depending on your posts. There are certain hottake topics that will flag your account over time and then one day boom, account banned. Like peptides, promotional content especially with links, iptv... such posts.
 
It can be hard to identify the exact reason because Reddit uses multiple signals a sudden change in behavior, links or reports can trigger reviews
 
sometimes you’ll get a notification if your content got flagged by a (sub)Reddit mod, other times it’ll be a silent flag which is much harder to determine, they also do this on purpose so people don’t try and circumvent their algorithm.
 
Reddit usually doesn’t specify the exact reason for banning an account. However, in most cases, it’s due to posting content that violates the platform’s policies or performing too many actions in a short period, which is often flagged as spam.
 
It is not always easy to know the exact reason because platforms don't explain everything. I usually check my recent activity and see if I did anything unusual.
 
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