Been on reddit 10+ years. Account banned out of the blue. Did they just flip a switch and let AI start killing accounts all of the sudden?

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This is just a normal account that I use to ask questions and talk to people about games, etc. What TF is happening to reddit? I'm just going to transition to lemmy. They really seem to be making it as bad as possible.
 
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I'm not into Reddit marketing. However, I'm using Reddit to create subreddits for SEO purposes as Tier 1 links. Even though they are nofollow, they're really helpful, especially when compared to Tier 2 links. However, even with my own subreddits, I'm getting banned, and I guess Reddit is so hard to deal with, especially towards the end of the year. This has been happening every year around this time, and some even say it's a policy rollout. Who knows? But I still create and build subreddits, lol.
 
supAlc said:
I'm not into Reddit marketing. However, I'm using Reddit to create subreddits for SEO purposes as Tier 1 links. Even though they are nofollow, they're really helpful, especially when compared to Tier 2 links. However, even with my own subreddits, I'm getting banned, and I guess Reddit is so hard to deal with, especially towards the end of the year. This has been happening every year around this time, and some even say it's a policy rollout. Who knows? But I still create and build subreddits, lol.
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It's kinda' funny until it's not. At the end of the day it's only reddit but watching a 10 year old account get flushed randomly just makes wonder if spez isn't just laying off people and plugging in AI to line his pockets a little more.
 
Reddit doesn't discriminate between aged or high-karma accounts and ban them all alike.
 
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Reddit doesn't discriminate between aged or high-karma accounts and ban them all alike.
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Oh, I get it, but the last month before I was banned I posted about pokemon cards, my cat and 3D printing....boom, account gone. Spez is fucking up in a whole new way.
 
My guess is automated detection is doing more of the initial flagging, with human review being inconsistent, but nobody outside Reddit knows the actual thresholds.
 
shijin said:
My guess is automated detection is doing more of the initial flagging, with human review being inconsistent, but nobody outside Reddit knows the actual thresholds.
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Did some snooping today and it looks like shadowbans are seeing a sharp uptick. That's some cowardly shit right there...no explanations, no notifications, just make you invisible and the odds of appealing are pretty slim. It's like they're trying to kill the site.
 
Been going on a while

Reddit's in Kamakazi mode

They dont know what to do

The COO speaking out lately really tells the truth of how bad it is because they were NEVER this vocal ever
 
I'll disagree... reddit is being reddit... it keeps suspending my accounts but the ones which control 3 subreddits... they get a free pass. but... i use them very carefully.
One thing lately... stupid reddit advises to cross post and then bans the cross posting accounts.
 
I kinda like it... They've been torturing us lately
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owlnest said:
It's kinda' funny until it's not. At the end of the day it's only reddit but watching a 10 year old account get flushed randomly just makes wonder if spez isn't just laying off people and plugging in AI to line his pockets a little more.
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Yeah that's how reddit works. I am replying to here while I am creating new reddit and I know reddit stealth methods serious as creating financial account like gaypal , stripe the only thing they don't ask kyc yet lol at least from me. For me since I use reddit only for backlinking purposes now I am going to replace that with another platform which can use as my buffer sites but I guess it won't work who works solely on reddit..so yeah
 
That's how Reddit works these days.
One of my personal accounts got hit as well. It's personal account, never promoting anything.
 
Here's a story, my personal account was hacked, credentials stolen and someone posted NSFW content within few subreddits, that got my account banned. Once I opened Reddit on my phone, I couldn't believe because I never post or posted any NSFW content. And that was kinda funny because all of my previous posts were related to the country I am from, gaming topics, shitposting and memes, all posts had generally positive output. What interest me was that I always logged on through Google, and before you ask, Google did not find any logins to Google itself from other countries. So I honestly don't know how or why was I hacked, by the way, those NSFW subreddits were from South America, so I guess someone from that region hacked it. The account is around 6 years of age, with 2k karma and good upstanding. I of course inquired the admins to lift the band and they eventually did, but now if I try to post something to bigger subreddits I am automatically banned from them because of BouncerBot addon that flags me, meaning that action of posting random NSFW stuff out of the blue and most likely connecting from very different region picked up some signals.
 
That's really unfortunate, especially after using the account for over 10 years. I'm still trying to understand how Reddit handles account bans. Did you receive any explanation or warning before the ban and I don't really know how it happen without any notice?
 
Really, really bad luck. Looks like Reddit just didn't like your account for whatever reason.

And it's not just Reddit using AI to ban accounts without warning anymore. Most social media platforms are doing the same thing.

Looks like you'll have to start over with a new account. Their AI probably detected something it didn't like and boom, account gone.

Such a shame!!
 
proxysolid1 said:
Really, really bad luck. Looks like Reddit just didn't like your account for whatever reason.

And it's not just Reddit using AI to ban accounts without warning anymore. Most social media platforms are doing the same thing.

Looks like you'll have to start over with a new account. Their AI probably detected something it didn't like and boom, account gone.

Such a shame!!
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Funnily enough reddit does not want users to create second accounts due to their policy of ban evasion. If let's say you will create an account on the same network, from the same device, the system will flag it
 
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