Reddit Ban Mechanism

Reddit bans can sometimes feel random, but in many cases there was a mistake, pattern, or activity before the ban.

Let's share real experiences and learn from each other.

If you've been banned or shadowbanned , temporarily banned.

1. Account age when banned:

2. What were you doing before the ban?

3. Posting or commenting frequency:
Type of content:

4. Any warning before the ban?
Subreddit ban, shadowban, or sitewide suspension?

5. What mistake do you think caused it?

6. What would you do differently now?

most bans i see come from activity not the account itself. the first days matter most, dropping into subs and posting right away or adding links early is the fastest way to get flagged. shadowbans usually hit when you repeat similar content across subs too quick. now i just comment for a while first and keep links out until the account has some real karma, that alone cut my bans a lot

I think one of the biggest reasons is posting or commenting too much in a short time. Now I try to keep my activity natural, interact with different subreddits, and avoid looking like spam.

TraceXBT said:

Reddit bans can sometimes feel random, but in many cases there was a mistake, pattern, or activity before the ban.

Let's share real experiences and learn from each other.

If you've been banned or shadowbanned , temporarily banned.

1. Account age when banned:

2. What were you doing before the ban?

3. Posting or commenting frequency:
Type of content:

4. Any warning before the ban?
Subreddit ban, shadowban, or sitewide suspension?

5. What mistake do you think caused it?

6. What would you do differently now?

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Mine was around a month old. I think I was posting too much without enough genuine interaction. No real warning it just got suspended. Since then, I've been much more active in comments and only promote occasionally. It seems Reddit rewards accounts that participate naturally first.

In my experience bans almost never come from the content of one comment, they come from the account's trust score plus a behaviour pattern. The trust side is IP, fingerprint, age and karma, the behaviour side is velocity and intent, posting or commenting too fast, the same link repeated, or anything that reads as off-platform self-promo. A brand new account on a shared IP that starts promoting gets flagged before the words even matter.

Worth separating the 3 types too. A subreddit ban is just that sub's mods or AutoMod, easy to trip and often not your fault. A shadowban, where posts show for you but nobody else, is usually site-wide trust or automation getting caught, and that's the serious one. A sitewide suspension is repeated or severe flags. Most ban stories come down to the same thing, moving too fast or promoting too early on an account that hasn't earned trust yet, and the fix is a slower ramp plus a clean IP and fingerprint per account.

Best,
Floqal

Salamouna said:

most bans i see come from activity not the account itself. the first days matter most, dropping into subs and posting right away or adding links early is the fastest way to get flagged. shadowbans usually hit when you repeat similar content across subs too quick. now i just comment for a while first and keep links out until the account has some real karma, that alone cut my bans a lot

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nope
creatted acct on mar 24
little warmed for 10 karma
today posted just one blog link that also job related
got banned

RankRise Solutions said:

I think one of the biggest reasons is posting or commenting too much in a short time. Now I try to keep my activity natural, interact with different subreddits, and avoid looking like spam.

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I have seen people with 1200-1500 comment in just 2 days old account , contribution reflect after passed 24 hours , it will be like 70 hours account without ban , how is that possible ?

Last month I made 1000 Reddit accounts just to see what would happen. What happened was they all got banned, which I'm sure will come as a shock (or not), but it took about a week. None to very little activity on any of the accounts, no links posted or anything.

floqal said:

toxoplasmosis said:

Last month I made 1000 Reddit accounts just to see what would happen. What happened was they all got banned, which I'm sure will come as a shock (or not), but it took about a week. None to very little activity on any of the accounts, no links posted or anything.

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floqal said:

Did you use anti-detect browser + proxy ?

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Or jailbreak iPhone?
Or android ?
Does it the same phone ? Same reddit app ?

Did you rotating ip address every time you make account?

Did you verified email ?

Did you sign up using same mail again again or different mail ?

TraceXBT said:

Or jailbreak iPhone?
Or android ?
Does it the same phone ? Same reddit app ?

Did you rotating ip address every time you make account?

Did you verified email ?

Did you sign up using same mail again again or different mail ?

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I used undetectable browser automations on a rotation of eight subnets based in the US. This was a late night throw-shit-at-the-wall experiment for a mobile proxy service I'm building, so I used my own 5G farm. The accounts were email verified, but with fewer than 1000 email accounts.

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Or jailbreak iPhone?
Or android ?
Does it the same phone ? Same reddit app ?

Did you rotating ip address every time you make account?

Did you verified email ?

Did you sign up using same mail again again or different mail ?

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With almost no activity in the mix, this is purely how the accounts were made, not how they behaved, so straight to your questions.

Anti-detect browser + proxy: yes, but the tool alone won't save you. Each account needs its own identity that you reuse every login, and the parts have to agree. A clean spoofed fingerprint with a timezone or language that doesn't match the IP stands out more than a plain but consistent one.

Jailbreak or root: no, it works against you. Reddit's app flags tampered devices, so a jailbroken iPhone or rooted Android reads as a signal, not a shortcut.

Same phone, same app: that's what links them. One phone or one app instance running hundreds of accounts ties them together, so one falling takes the rest with it. Separate profile per account, either a distinct anti-detect profile or its own emulated device.

Rotating IP: careful, this is likely part of it. You want a distinct clean IP per account, but not to rotate the same account's IP every session. Residential or mobile that stays sticky to the account is the goal; datacenter or fast-rotating is exactly what mass signup looks like.

Verified email: verify, yes, but a unique real-provider inbox each time. Temp and disposable domains are already blacklisted, and reusing the same mail or the same domain pattern ties the accounts together.

Best,
Floqal

The vast majority of Reddit bans occur due to trends of behavior rather than individual incidents. Having an account for a short period of time, posting aggressively, making links repeatedly, and appearing to be automated can all get a user flagged...