aurim
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I'm sharing this to motivate people that want to make it on Reddit. Also my Christmas gift to the BHW members.
Lately there were many threads about how Reddit delete posts and ban accounts like crazy, and people could not figure out why.
The logic behind deleted posts and bans:
Some people blame it on proxies, other on devices and other on accounts. While all of these independently or combined can cause issues, the most important aspect of Reddit nowadays is pattern recognition of your activity.
Even if you start with a bad IP, you're still having chances to make it work if you play it correctly. Reddit doesn't instantly ban an account because it was using the same IP on which other Reddit account was banned. Imagine going to a bar and using the WiFi there, if one person gets his account banned, does it make sense for Reddit to ban all other people's accounts at the place?
It was always about a combination of factors, not one factor alone. So while you can have one of the factors 'flagged' and still make it, it is when you use multiple flagged factors at the same time when Reddit throws the ban hammer.
I have made lots of tests before coming to conclusions here: Having posts accepted is a matter of starting out slowly and progressively incrementing your activity along with the account authority, this especially if one of the above factors are 'flagged'.
Simple ways to check if the IP or the account are flagged:
Key points for when you start with newly created accounts:
Key points for when you start with aged accounts with karma:
Conclusion:
It's true that everything being clean (IP/device/account) makes Reddit less trigger-happy, but pattern recognition is now playing a bigger role than in the past years, especially since A.I. tech is now so evolved. Reddit has tons of data from genuine users that can analyze and create patterns from. If you create/buy an account and you go ahead in your first hour with posts, comments and links, and all this also on new IP's and devices, that can be easily identified as spam and treated as such.
And one of my posts from yesterday (redacted details so I don't get banned by some Reddit mod browsing BHW):
Hope this will help someone.
Happy New Year!
Lately there were many threads about how Reddit delete posts and ban accounts like crazy, and people could not figure out why.
The logic behind deleted posts and bans:
Some people blame it on proxies, other on devices and other on accounts. While all of these independently or combined can cause issues, the most important aspect of Reddit nowadays is pattern recognition of your activity.
Even if you start with a bad IP, you're still having chances to make it work if you play it correctly. Reddit doesn't instantly ban an account because it was using the same IP on which other Reddit account was banned. Imagine going to a bar and using the WiFi there, if one person gets his account banned, does it make sense for Reddit to ban all other people's accounts at the place?
It was always about a combination of factors, not one factor alone. So while you can have one of the factors 'flagged' and still make it, it is when you use multiple flagged factors at the same time when Reddit throws the ban hammer.
I have made lots of tests before coming to conclusions here: Having posts accepted is a matter of starting out slowly and progressively incrementing your activity along with the account authority, this especially if one of the above factors are 'flagged'.
Simple ways to check if the IP or the account are flagged:
- For the IP, just browse to Google and perform a search, if you're getting a captcha screen, then the IP is somehow over-used, not necessarily over-used on Reddit, but spam activity on Google might imply spam activity in other places too, and these companies might share data in between.
- For the account, do a search of the username in the top search bar, and then select the People tab. If the account username shows up then the account is most likely in good standing. If it doesn't show up in the results, the account is more or less flagged.
- For the device, I don't have a method, you just need to know if on previous activity on that device Reddit blocked/banned an account, if so, avoid using it again. (here is where anti-detect browsers will come in handy)
Key points for when you start with newly created accounts:
- New accounts that have no age nor karma should be handled more careful.
- In the first days of your login just browse Reddit, save posts and join some subs. No comments or posts.
- Browse subs and watch posts like crazy, Reddit will count it as genuine activity and improve your score.
- Start with posts in smaller subreddits, or, in general ones that are very tolerable, like r/Askreddit
- If you're getting time-limited, make sure to stop the activity that day, or, at most wait a few hours before your next comment/post.
- Large subreddits that are niche-specific, like r/earthporn or r/foodporn, may instantly delete your posts. This doesn't mean the account has an issue, you need to first increase authority.
- As you grow your post and comment karma, you will gradually grow your authority and be able to post in those larger and more niched subreddits.
Key points for when you start with aged accounts with karma:
- An account that was inactive in the last couple weeks, ideally needs a warm up time before starting to post. The warmup is the same as for the new accounts above.
- If the account was active recently, you're still needing some accommodation time of the account if that was now logged in a completely new IP and device.
- If you need to post in a very large subreddit the account didn't interacted in previously, make sure to spend some time in that sub first, engaging with a few comments.
- Posting in low to medium subreddits (member-wise) shouldn't imply any issue, as long as the account was warmed up.
Conclusion:
It's true that everything being clean (IP/device/account) makes Reddit less trigger-happy, but pattern recognition is now playing a bigger role than in the past years, especially since A.I. tech is now so evolved. Reddit has tons of data from genuine users that can analyze and create patterns from. If you create/buy an account and you go ahead in your first hour with posts, comments and links, and all this also on new IP's and devices, that can be easily identified as spam and treated as such.
And one of my posts from yesterday (redacted details so I don't get banned by some Reddit mod browsing BHW):
Hope this will help someone.
Happy New Year!
I gave a hint here. I can share the post in PM if you want, just ping me.
