Watching Reddit kill aged accounts over time

ScribScribScrib said:

I've been saying this for 2 years now: You need accounts that are both recently active and that have a history of activity.

I spend more time managing Reddit accounts than anything else.

I would love to outsource it, but I'm too afraid and kinda have trust issues.

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bartosimpsonio said:

Smart phones make it very hard to manage multiple identities. It's basically a biometric device. You'll need a physical farm if you wanna scale it in the future

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Atlantix said:

I have been doing research on this, and planning on building a physical farm.

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trueplayer said:

@ScribScribScrib yeah exactly - “recently active + historically active” is the combo people miss. Accounts need a continuous low-noise heartbeat, not phases of dead + grind. Outsourcing breaks because you lose behavioral continuity, not because helpers are dumb.

@moonshine7000 + @RedditHelper you’re both right and this is where most people still cope with proxies. Behavior is the graph, IP is just a node. Same posting cadence, same dwell times, same subreddit clusters = cooked eventually no matter how clean the proxy looks.

@washingtondc + @BannerBandit + @megakim that quiet muting before any ban is the key signal. Reddit doesn’t need to nuke you if they can just remove you from feeds. Most people think “account still posts = safe” while it’s already dead.

@updownleftright old idle accounts waking up with intent is probably the worst pattern right now. Even spacing posts doesn’t save it if topic focus suddenly snaps into place like a campaign.

@Nut-Nights “use it like a regular user” is correct but incomplete - regular users drift. Interests decay, posting hours change, comment vs post ratio shifts over months. Static “natural looking” behavior is still unnatural.

@quynhuyen support requests can work short term but they don’t fix the underlying trust score. You might get visibility back then lose it again next refresh if behavior stays off.

@cooooookies normal vs equal distribution matters more than people think. Equal waits scream automation. Humans are bursty, distracted, inconsistent. Long pauses + fast streaks look way more real than smooth curves.

@LucaBernadi that line sums it up perfectly. Reddit doesn’t punish, it devalues. People only notice when ROI hits zero.

@theusualkeysersoze appreciate that. I agree on cloud phones being mostly cope. App traffic isn’t magic if the behavior graph collapses. Desktop profiles with long-lived noise still blend better than people want to admit, especially when accounts age into “boring user” territory.

Net takeaway for anyone reading: aged accounts aren’t assets anymore, they’re liabilities if you don’t maintain behavioral continuity. Reddit is scoring trajectories, not snapshots. No action buttons, no warnings, just math running in the background.

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InfernoAds said:

Yeah, Reddit seems to be purging or limiting old inactive accounts more aggressively lately accounts that just sit dormant often lose visibility or get flagged over time.

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bartosimpsonio said:

Smart phones make it very hard to manage multiple identities. It's basically a biometric device. You'll need a physical farm if you wanna scale it in the future

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trueplayer said:

Been watching Reddit closely the last year because I kept seeing older accounts randomly lose reach or get shadowed without doing anything wild.

What stood out is that age alone doesn’t protect anything anymore, fr. Some accounts were years old, light posting history, no obvious spam, and still slowly stopped getting visibility.

What broke first wasn’t bans, it was engagement. Posts would submit fine, show on profile, but never hit feeds or got stuck at 0 views for hours.

Another pattern was delayed action. Stuff would work for weeks, then one day the account just felt “cold” overnight, like trust got re-evaluated in batch.

The biggest flag I noticed was behavioral mismatch. Posting style, timing, and subreddit hopping didn’t line up with how a normal user drifts over time, and Reddit seems way better at spotting that now.

IP or device stuff didn’t instantly nuke anything, but over time the system seemed to connect dots anyway. No drama, no warnings, just quiet throttling.

What surprised me is how much weight they seem to put on long gaps + sudden activity. Old accounts waking up and acting purpose-driven just don’t age well anymore.

Basically multiaccounting doesn’t usually fail loudly, it just decays. You think it’s working until you realize nothing is actually landing.

Curious if others are seeing the same slow death pattern or if anyone still sees old accounts holding trust long-term.

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cooooookies said:

But you can fully use reddit via non mobile browser. I am pretty new to reddit automation, does regular browser automation lead to quicker ban? Or do you get a bonus with mobile browser? Or even more when using app?

I implemented proper waiting times, keystroke dynamics and human mouse movement. There is a lot to consider. And even more if you want to run multiple accounts from one IP. Still experimenting, will report back.

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