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
 
False positives from anti-spam AI... that's a big problem right now
 
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