[huibf]

I don't know why you're going through all that effort instead of just creating a new account.

[Leparamour]

> I don't know why you're going through all that effort instead of just creating a new account.

I think there is some kind of IP or cookie based identification going on.

One of my accounts was permabanned on the German /r/de subreddit for publically questioning a mod decision. At the next login I found that ALL of my accounts that I used for serious and professional subreddits (netsec, python, learnmachinelearning) and never once used on /r/de had also been permabanned.

I wrote to the helpdesk but they only told me to contact the mods of /r/de which is impossible if you're permabanned.

[krono]

I'm not exactly motivated to ever return now that I've learned that this how active community members in good standing can expect to be treated.

[ianleeclark]

Seems you weren't in good standing.

[krono]

Looking at the level of engagement and fake internet points my posts across the subs in this network received over the last 11 years, I can at least die happy knowing the community members thought I was a pretty cool guy.

The mods can go .. themselves.

[read_if_gay_]

Obviously your opinion is not wanted there. So why go the extra mile? Just move on.

[huibf]

Moderators do very rarely speak for the community they moderate.

[throwaway0a5e]

By kicking out everyone they don't agree with over time they curate an echo chamber of the few that they do speak for.

[read_if_gay_]

True, but they are the ones with all the power. I think you’re fighting not just an uphill but an impossible battle. With very little upside to you if you win.

[adar]

It takes about 10 seconds to create a new Reddit account so it's the moderators who'd be fighting the uphill, impossible battle to keep someone banned.

[throwaway6734]

Reddit provides tooling to identify people on new accounts that have been banned in the past. I think you'd need to couple this with a VPN

[belltaco]

Not true. Only admins can see alt accounts(based on IP address), and they never reveal alt accounts of others to even mods.

[intended]

VPNs dont matter anyway. Just make a new account. Unless you have some topic you constantly focus on, or have a tag line you repeat, you will be invisible.

[yourusername]

They will shadowban your new account unless you only use the new account through a VPN (and possibly take other steps to prevent them associating the two accounts).

[PartiallyTyped]

If an account is banned (not shadow-banned) and reddit finds out the person uses other accounts to evade it, they suspend (but not ban) both temporarily.