Is it the end if Reddit ban you permanently?
I got banned twice now on two separate accounts. Both times, the message they sent me in my inbox are:
Your account has been permanently banned for breaking the rules.
This account has been permanently banned due to multiple, repeated violations of Reddit's Content Policy on your other account(s). For more information about what rules you broke and how to appeal, check your account inboxes.
This is ridiculous to me. My first account was over a few years old. I was barely on there. Made one post last year January, then decided I want to be active again back in February. Then I get hit with that. Not even a warning or a clear enough reason as to what rule I broke. I had only that one account then. Send a few appeals, and they were either rejected or ignored. So fast forward this month, April, I made another account. In order to ask for help, and to start over. I knew the possibility of getting banned again was there. But hope it doesn't occurred again. But it did. Once again, I'm here, wondering if my other appeals will be ignored again. My first appeal sent to them was rejected by a bot. The only thing I could think of as to what might have gotten me banned falsely is my IP address. My sister also uses Reddit, as due to her personality, her way of thinking and viewing things emotionally and mentally, it's not hard to imagine she would get banned from Reddit too. She's in special class, and etc just to get a picture. The change she try to evade a ban to create another account and so forth is high. And because we live in the same house, I suspect Reddit banned me because they think I'm her. Or that we share an account or are the same person. That's the only reason I can think of for this random ban. I didn't want to sit there and just not be able to use Reddit, which is why that second account exists a month or so later. As it's clear they're ignoring the appeals I sent for the first account. But is it over then? Do they ban people as they please without solid prove?
I had a 17 year old account that got shadow banned so I went ahead and deleted it. All comments I've ever made there were in good faith and respectful and I avoided hot topic discussions (i.e. the entirety of the front page). It's no big deal. I'd say up until 2014 or so the site was pretty decent. The decline in quality in recent years is especially remarkable. Maybe they are trying to do something about this, resulting in people getting caught in the crossfire. I've moved to old-school forums for niche topics of interest. Even niche subreddits have really poor discourse these days. I'm tired of interacting with random user names as well. It's nice to recognize who you are talking to.
Yes, I wouldn't expect the ban to be listen any time soon.
For reference I was shadowbanned for an unknown reason, probably by posting too much on new threads in a subreddit, if I had to guess. This isn't a full ban, just a shadow ban. I've been banned for 2 months and have been appealing every day and from what I can see it might take me up to a year or perhaps the ban will never be lifted. And I am 100% sure that I've done nothing against content policies.
You on the other hand have an actual ban for Content Policy violations. Maybe someone up voted too much Luigi content or posts that advocated for violence (and they have a very loose interpretation of this). Who knows. But you got a real ban and they don't want you there. Now that you have created another account which was caught you also have ban evasion on record.
If you want you can do daily appeals like I am but in your case I wouldn't expect the ban to ever be lifted, and would look at either moving on from Reddit or creating a new account with a new IP and keeping it entirely firewalled, permanently. (And this is probably no easy task since you are likely going to need to use a VPN, but keep in mind Reddit often shadowbans for using VPNs).
Maybe this is a sign to try something different with your time.
Been on Reddit since Aaron sent me an invite. Been active for a decade with hundreds of thousands of karma. Permabanned three years ago for discussing the role of Ghislaine Maxwell as super mod u/maxwellhill and subsequent accounts have been permabanned - assuming they're using device fingerprinting as accounts used different IP addresses, different emails etc.
Reddit is infuriating. The best community moderation system of up and down votes, with the most toxic bunch of information and cognitive warfare operatives soiling it with their manipulative bullshit moderation.
Reddit today is nothing more than a sandpit for testing novel psychological warfare techniques.
It's a private platform, the moment you click "agree" on their TOS/EULA it is "over" for you as far as conflict remediation is concerned.
As good a reason as any to quit letting online services have this much control over your mental wellbeing.