This is effectively how I got permabanned as well. Not with an alt, but I made a new account for reasons unrelated to bans, deleted my old account first, and when I commented on something on the front page, they banned me from the whole site for ban evasion.
2 years later (about a week ago), a search brought me to a post where someone has a file I would like. They seemed excited to share it with whoever wants it, but will only share it via DM for some reason instead of just positing it. I made an account and heard you can’t DM people right away, so I made some comments to get past the spam restrictions all over the place. I somehow got banned from the personal finance sub, I have no idea why, and it says they blocked me from even asking. 2 or 3 other subs deleted my comments automatically based on the account age. I assume if I accidentally try and comment again I’ll be banned. It has been a horrible user experience.
Being banned was the best thing that ever happened to me. Enjoy the freedom.
You have my sympathies, Reddit is a Kafkaesque nightmare for anyone unlucky enough to hit one of the increasing number of edge-cases and invisible hazards.
My decade+ single account (in good standing, maybe one permanent subreddit ban ever, thousands of pages of comments, etc.) got shadowbanned one morning for no reason I've ever been able to find. The appeal was actually "granted", but somehow they didn't actually turn off the evil-bit, and then I couldn't contact anyone because the appeals-page claims my account was normal while all other stuff kept getting removed even after moderators manually approved it.
This is effectively how I got permabanned as well. Not with an alt, but I made a new account for reasons unrelated to bans, deleted my old account first, and when I commented on something on the front page, they banned me from the whole site for ban evasion.
2 years later (about a week ago), a search brought me to a post where someone has a file I would like. They seemed excited to share it with whoever wants it, but will only share it via DM for some reason instead of just positing it. I made an account and heard you can’t DM people right away, so I made some comments to get past the spam restrictions all over the place. I somehow got banned from the personal finance sub, I have no idea why, and it says they blocked me from even asking. 2 or 3 other subs deleted my comments automatically based on the account age. I assume if I accidentally try and comment again I’ll be banned. It has been a horrible user experience.
Being banned was the best thing that ever happened to me. Enjoy the freedom.
You have my sympathies, Reddit is a Kafkaesque nightmare for anyone unlucky enough to hit one of the increasing number of edge-cases and invisible hazards.
My decade+ single account (in good standing, maybe one permanent subreddit ban ever, thousands of pages of comments, etc.) got shadowbanned one morning for no reason I've ever been able to find. The appeal was actually "granted", but somehow they didn't actually turn off the evil-bit, and then I couldn't contact anyone because the appeals-page claims my account was normal while all other stuff kept getting removed even after moderators manually approved it.
Why do you need to post? What did it ever do for you besides occupy your time?
Look up: Eglin AFB, maxwellhill, RedditLies, etc.