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by markh1967 324 days ago
Why go to this much trouble for a Reddit account?

A few months ago I browsed r/all by new and downvoted every crypto scam post to unrelated subreddits I saw. This raised a red flag somewhere inside Reddit (my guess is that I was interfering with some Reddit admin's crypto scams) and my 18 year old account was suspended until I could respond to an email at the address it was registered from that I no longer had access to almost two decades later. An appeal was ignored.

I was furious about losing the account for about two minutes before I realised that nothing of any importance had been lost, shrugged, and created a new account.