I got into this situation because something was marked as harassment on my Reddit account, which banned me for 3 days. I had no intention to cause harm, I was just correcting someone over a movie detail that involved transgender but did not criticize trans people at all, but that’s not the issue. For some reason, I panicked, wasn’t thinking straight, and proceeded to delete that account and make a new one, which is ban evasion. I’m stupid, and for some reason I thought I could make a new account and it’d be fine. I didn’t even need Reddit at that time or used it very often at all, so I don’t know why I did that. My account got shadow banned a few hours later, which is permanent. What I did was stupid, and I regret my decisions. I’ll stay away from anything remotely controversial next time, and I won’t create accounts to circumvent the ban again. I never had a malicious intent though, I just want to use Reddit to ask specific questions, socialize about interests, and help others. I contacted Reddit through a support ticket a few times (once a week) and it has been almost a month, yet there is no response, though I’ve heard it can take several months for a response, if they respond at all, and I could possibly be filing too many tickets. I think it disabled me from logging into the banned account to appeal, so I can’t appeal another way. Since I broke the ToS, I am wondering if there is any hope for me. I consider Reddit to be useful in some aspects so it is a bit of a bummer, but it is the consequences of my actions I guess. A permanent life ban is a lot though :/ but it’s just a website. It’d be nice to get my account back which is why I am asking, but I totally understand if I can’t use Reddit again. Reddit sucks overall but it can be useful sometimes. I’ll move on though
Posted this somewhere else but found out this was a better community
You’re banned for life as Reddit mods are overzealous and refuse to change their minds. Ban evasion is on Reddit’s side and goes against their TOS. Might as well embrace the Lemmy life - it’s better here anyway and a lot less bots and reposts which was about 80% of Reddit now.
You can still use Reddit for looking up things, you’re just stuck being a permanent lurker - which many do anyway.
I literally got perma banned from r/technology a few hours ago, presumably for a comment I posted over the weekend where I vented about online dating apps and how they’re making people turn to sycophant AI chatbots for love. Apparently pointing out how sky high women’s standards are on apps is bigotry and that’s unacceptable. My 15+ years of participating on that subreddit didn’t matter, nor did the fact that I didn’t use any misogynistic terminology, didn’t type any slurs, didn’t promote any incel/MGTOW/red pill rhetoric and didn’t throw out any personal insults. Some asshole Reddit mod didn’t like my comment and now I’m gone.
This could’ve been a comment removal and warning. Instead they took the nuclear route.
Not even gonna bother appealing it as I know these assholes are just gonna tell me to fuck off, mod mail mute me for 28 days then cwy hawassment to the admins if I push the issue any further. Literally unsubscribed from the subreddit and muted it, much like I did with r/Worldnews when they banned me for criticizing Saudi Arabia and their treatment of women.
Fully agree with your comment. Lemmy’s cooler. I feel like I can speak my mind on here without having to worry about overzealous internet janitors or having to mince my words to avoid shadow bans.