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by monkeydreams 1844 days ago
> Well, I recently was permanently suspended on Reddit, but I've been unable to determine why (also, no previous announcement).

> The curious thing for me was that my alt account (the one I use to try to have some semblance of free speech) was also permanently suspended.

That sucks, especially as there are few ways to appeal these bans.

Perhaps you were banned for upvoting your own content from another account? This will result in a ban for both accounts. If not, it could be a number of other reasons that have nothing to do with cancellation or governmental criticism.
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rolandog 1843 days ago
> Perhaps you were banned for upvoting your own content from another account? This will result in a ban for both accounts. If not, it could be a number of other reasons that have nothing to do with cancellation or governmental criticism.

To be quite honest, there used to be a time in my life where I would've cared about getting up voted and having a popular opinion, but I don't think I've cared enough to cheat the system.

Nowadays, I tried to discern what is or isn't propaganda and I sometimes commented on days-old threads.

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Zuider 1842 days ago
Reddit has introduced a policy where you can be banned merely for upvoting an offending opinion. You may have fallen foul of that.
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rolandog 1841 days ago
Oh man, this could have been my case... I have sometimes accidentally up or down voted links or comments (switching hands to hold the phone, for example).

Now that I think about it, one of the last things I had upvoted was a comment that advocated for peace between the Israeli and Palestinian sides.

I wanted to reply, but I thought that my opinion would not be taken seriously if I used my alt account, so I switched to my real account to write a thoughtful comment.

I started writing it, then I saved it as a draft and decided to go to sleep and think things over so I wouldn't write something offensive, then I tried posting (on the 'RIF' app) and it kept failing to post. That's when, after logging in online, I realized I had been permanently banned.

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