Reddit: "We had a server error...", why did this happen?

SkyHigh007

SkyHigh007

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I suddenly get this type of shadowban when I log into my reddit account which was totally fine before:
1) Red banner on top: "We had a server error..."
2) Cannot post
3) Cannot even send private messages
4) Read-only access to Reddit is still fine.

How can this happen?

The background:
1) The reddit acccount is 3 months old, properly warmed up until 3000 post karma, 500 comment karma.
2) The reddit account is originally made on an IPRoyal static residential proxy-IP with an antidetect browser (AdsPower), and I have always kept using it only via this way. Never been logged-in to another IP address or browser. And no other reddit account logged-in to the same IP during these 3 months, it was exclusively used for this account.
3) No upvotes bought. No cross-linking by commenting/upvoting with my own other reddit accounts at all.
4) I have meticulously scanned the recent posts/comments, and I am sure we have not posted anything against the rules of subreddits or reddit in general.
--
However:
5) I share this AdsPower profile with employees, and AdsPower is set-up so we can only open the profile one at a time. BUT I AM AFRAID OF THIS: Sometimes an employee inevitably just closes his laptop lid without first properly closing the browser profile window (thus AdsPower now does not save the latest session parameters to the cloud), and then probably all is fine if that employee would resume to open the lid on time and use it again to keep the AdsPower "hold" (on opening that profile) for the other employees, but if the employee keeps the lid closed for too long, then after some time-out expiry, AdsPower releases the "hold" on the profile , and then another employee will inevitably open that same profile again and getting last-saved session parameters. I was thinking that if Reddit saves some "count" inside those session parameters, they can detect that it's trying to open it in same way as the last session, like going back in time. Should I be concerned about that? (And if yes, how to deal with this issue?)

Or what are the other options to why I got shadowbanned?
 
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Where are you come from? My opinion, may be from using fake IP or proxy.
 
galvinVP29 said:
Where are you come from? My opinion, may be from using fake IP or proxy.
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Its a proxy from IPRoyal. "Static residential proxy" for +-$3 per month.
Its set to USA. I now actually found out that it changes its location weekly to another city within USA. (But then Adspower would update its GPS lat/long also, I assume?). Is this a problem?
 
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pavois123 said:
try new ip
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I did this for last-try recovery purposes:
1) Totally log out from the old browser profile
2) Log in via my normal browser on my own home IP (where I never used reddit before).
But it results in the same server error.
 
You are banned. I have the same issues with a few of my accounts as well. Something triggered the system. You can verify by searching your username from a different account or use a direct link. It won't show up.

I tried contacting support about this, never gotten back to. It's best to forget the account and keep going with different ones. And try to learn what you did wrong. It happened on Accounts for me that I felt safe already as well. Currently unsure on how I triggered these bans myself.
 
Siperion said:
You are banned. I have the same issues with a few of my accounts as well. Something triggered the system. You can verify by searching your username from a different account or use a direct link. It won't show up.

I tried contacting support about this, never gotten back to. It's best to forget the account and keep going with different ones. And try to learn what you did wrong. It happened on Accounts for me that I felt safe already as well. Currently unsure on how I triggered these bans myself.
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Yeah I know this account is gone forever (shadowbanned). I just need to know why. Otherwise I'll be going insane repeating this all the time.

- What about the double-login problem? (due to somebody closing the lid of laptop without making AdsPower save the session by a proper close, and then another person opening that same session on older saved parameters).
- What about the $3/month static residential proxy from IPRoyal?
 
SkyHigh007 said:
Yeah I know this account is gone forever (shadowbanned). I just need to know why. Otherwise I'll be going insane repeating this all the time.

- What about the double-login problem? (due to somebody closing the lid of laptop without making AdsPower save the session by a proper close, and then another person opening that same session on older saved parameters).
- What about the $3/month static residential proxy from IPRoyal?
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Unfortunately I don't have any advice regarding your employee problem as I work alone.
However I'd say you can forget about the proxy. I do in fact use IPRoyal myself and it's annoying to ditch a single IP when you've bought a bulk. (Like seriously, do you have this issue too that you can't really renew or delete specific IPs?).

Perhaps you could dedicate certain profiles to certain employees and guarantee no overlap with this.
 
I sugest you to test new anti-detect browser and new ip provider
 
xploader said:
I sugest you to test new anti-detect browser and new ip provider
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Most probably all those anti-detect browsers are quite similar, but the details of the settings might be more of an issue. (Such as: its better to not set WebGL to noise.)

Any advices for good proxy providers for Reddit?
 
Siperion said:
I do in fact use IPRoyal myself and it's annoying to ditch a single IP when you've bought a bulk. (Like seriously, do you have this issue too that you can't really renew or delete specific IPs?).

Perhaps you could dedicate certain profiles to certain employees and guarantee no overlap with this.
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Yeah, but I just buy a pack for each country I need for 30 days. And then if most IPs are good, you renew the whole pack for another 30 days. Just if most are bad (due to your own inflicted account bans on them), then you take a whole new pack for 30 days.

(And then "some good accounts on good IPs" just have to be migrated to another IP every 30 days at worst, but they usually survive this in my experience. But you might end up with someone else's bad pack though, thats the risk.)
 
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SkyHigh007 said:
Yeah, but I just buy a pack for each country I need for 30 days. And then if most IPs are good, you renew the whole pack for another 30 days. Just if most are bad (due to your own inflicted account bans on them), then you take a whole new pack for 30 days.

(And then "some good accounts on good IPs" just have to be migrated to another IP every 30 days at worst, but they usually survive this in my experience. But you might end up with someone else's bad pack though, thats the risk.)
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You migrate Accounts to new Proxies? I thought it's risky to do so but with selling accounts this would be good news to know it's possible.

my current idea was to renew the proxy I have for the account myself if a client that bought the accounts wants it. But that's an issue with IProyal as I can't renew individual IPs
 
SkyHigh007 said:
I did this for last-try recovery purposes:
1) Totally log out from the old browser profile
2) Log in via my normal browser on my own home IP (where I never used reddit before).
But it results in the same server error.
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do dns flush

and use ignition mode
 
pavois123 said:
do dns flush

and use ignition mode
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dns flush:
- on windows = ipconfig /flushdns
- on mac = sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder
What does this help for exactly? What is Reddit tracking in your DNS cache?
(I just tried on my shadowbanned account, it does not un-shadowban it, but maybe you mean this should be done before you create a new account?)

and ignition mode = incognito mode? (well i did that on my home ip as a last try for recovery)
 
Siperion said:
You migrate Accounts to new Proxies? I thought it's risky to do so but with selling accounts this would be good news to know it's possible.

my current idea was to renew the proxy I have for the account myself if a client that bought the accounts wants it. But that's an issue with IProyal as I can't renew individual IPs
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For reddit I did change proxy every 30 days for certain accounts, and 90%+ of them lived through it. My idea was that a normal person can also travel, move the device gps location, and change IP. Just don't travel faster than is possible (e.g. if the trip to get there takes 8 hours, don't log in sooner than 8 hours).
 
SkyHigh007 said:
For reddit I did change proxy every 30 days for certain accounts, and 90%+ of them lived through it. My idea was that a normal person can also travel, move the device gps location, and change IP. Just don't travel faster than is possible (e.g. if the trip to get there takes 8 hours, don't log in sooner than 8 hours).
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Thanks for the advice man :)
 
SkyHigh007 said:
I suddenly get this type of shadowban when I log into my reddit account which was totally fine before:
1) Red banner on top: "We had a server error..."
2) Cannot post
3) Cannot even send private messages
4) Read-only access to Reddit is still fine.

How can this happen?

The background:
1) The reddit acccount is 3 months old, properly warmed up until 3000 post karma, 500 comment karma.
2) The reddit account is originally made on an IPRoyal static residential proxy-IP with an antidetect browser (AdsPower), and I have always kept using it only via this way. Never been logged-in to another IP address or browser. And no other reddit account logged-in to the same IP during these 3 months, it was exclusively used for this account.
3) No upvotes bought. No cross-linking by commenting/upvoting with my own other reddit accounts at all.
4) I have meticulously scanned the recent posts/comments, and I am sure we have not posted anything against the rules of subreddits or reddit in general.
--
However:
5) I share this AdsPower profile with employees, and AdsPower is set-up so we can only open the profile one at a time. BUT I AM AFRAID OF THIS: Sometimes an employee inevitably just closes his laptop lid without first properly closing the browser profile window (thus AdsPower now does not save the latest session parameters to the cloud), and then probably all is fine if that employee would resume to open the lid on time and use it again to keep the AdsPower "hold" (on opening that profile) for the other employees, but if the employee keeps the lid closed for too long, then after some time-out expiry, AdsPower releases the "hold" on the profile , and then another employee will inevitably open that same profile again and getting last-saved session parameters. I was thinking that if Reddit saves some "count" inside those session parameters, they can detect that it's trying to open it in same way as the last session, like going back in time. Should I be concerned about that? (And if yes, how to deal with this issue?)

Or what are the other options to why I got shadowbanned?
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I have the same fucking problem. I have tried to create countless accounts and every time I just get 'banned' after one post. It's the same story for me. If you find out how to fix it I would be more than happy to pay for a solution.
 
Yaoppa said:
I have the same fucking problem. I have tried to create countless accounts and every time I just get 'banned' after one post. It's the same story for me. If you find out how to fix it I would be more than happy to pay for a solution.
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What's your approach? I grow accounts as well and I don't run into the immediate ban.
 
Siperion said:
What's your approach? I grow accounts as well and I don't run into the immediate ban.
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Well, I always created a new account and waited for about a week then I started using it actively by upvoting, commenting, etc. Then the first post comes after about 10 days of having the account and boom, ban... Immediately after the first post, the same problem that OP has here...

I read advice somewhere to farm more karma but how can you do that when you can't post haha.
 
Yaoppa said:
Well, I always created a new account and waited for about a week then I started using it actively by upvoting, commenting, etc. Then the first post comes after about 10 days of having the account and boom, ban... Immediately after the first post, the same problem that OP has here...

I read advice somewhere to farm more karma but how can you do that when you can't post haha.
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You use Residential Proxies and an Anti-Detect Browser?
 
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