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I don't think reddit accounts get banned by using VPN but it is more about what you are posting using your accounts.
by hassanahmad 5y ago
I don't think reddit accounts get banned by using VPN but it is more about what you are posting using your accounts.
- ridgered4 5y agoI've definitely created a new account recently over VPN, posted a single question in a linux forum and then found the account was shadow banned.
- hassanahmad 5y agoYou can always contact the reddit team and if your account is suspended wrongly, it would definitely be reinstated.
- StellarTabi 5y agoAlso important to note that if you didn't post a lot, many subs will auto-remove content from low karma users. So it's possible to have misidentified a global shadow ban with a few subreddit's low karma filter. One of my spammer adversaries regularly games FreeKarma4U and a specific star wars game subreddit until they figure out our low karma filter threshold then they go nuts with the spam.
- StellarTabi 5y agoIt's really more about what kind of things people were posting from that VPN IP in the months/years before you. The abuse detection system will say "the tshirt spammer is back, flag this account" just because you used the same VPN as them.