Unpopular opinion: in this case, the system worked as intended for the benefit of the community. If all this person really has to contribute is a link to their own content, it's spam.

As a former mod of a large community I hated that small writers and creators bloggers were lumped in with the spammers. You want to know why Reddit became generic and boring? Why the internet doesn't feel boundless and weird anymore? Because over time only large established websites were permitted to be linked to without getting immediately IP banned.

When /r/StarTrek was small and I was trying to grow it, I invited several Trek bloggers I liked to post their writings. These weren't "blogspam", they were just people who just loved writing. They would always engage with the community in the comments under their posts. Over time they all were banned and their domains were blocked from being shared by any account on Reddit.

I agree with you that the system is working "as intended" but the intent sure feels a lot like forcing anyone making OC to be platform-locked to Reddit or risk having their entire domains be labeled as "spam".

You're describing different situation, where the system did not work for the benefit of the community. It's not about the domain that's linked, it's about the genuine community engagement. Your writers were active community members so I'd want their posts too.

You and I may see it that way, but Reddit does not consider it a different situation. And by Reddit I mean not only the algorithms that determine spam, but a non-insignificant amount of users at large that consistently reported small publications as spam.

Why a ban and not a warning or content removal? Are we just getting used to the idea that we execute people as a first line of corrective action?

From a time / money standpoint, it's costly to create an account on reddit. You have to have a certain account age and karma to even post in a lot of subreddits, which is an investment of time. Spammers replace time with money buy purchasing access to clean IPs, paying people to set up accounts and spam for karma. The only people who are going to create new reddit accounts, at this rate, are those expecting some kind of return on this time investment.

I'm with you on all of that

Lmao… dude kept getting banned for ban evasion. You can’t just keep making new accords.

sure you can

In this case ban makes sense to me because the account has nothing else to contribute, other than quota-meeting fluff. I never said ban everyone who breaks the rules. Again, I'm only talking about the example in the OP. But yes, warnings and content removals are also good moderation tools.

Why isn't his project valuable? You're saying other people should share it rather than the author sharing it. But how are other people going to find out about it first?

Based on the votes, your opinion seems popular, but I don't find it rational.

Reddit blocks a lot of established websites, too, like websites that are pretty basic. It's up to Reddit, but still they wonder why they're always so shocked and flabbergasted by current events. This is why.

I'm not saying the project isn't valuable. It could be extremely valuable. And I think it's ideal if the author shares rather than someone else, so long as they're a community member in good standing, with a positive contribution history. Real communities are made of people who engage, not just links, even if the links are good.

that’s exactly what i used to do. mods power trip? new acct. that whole hydrohomies thing and the spez “editing the db” thing got me a ton of bans when i kept shitting on the mods.

i’d do it here too.

They hardware ban now. I can’t make an account without it being insta-banned. And I have a VPN.

Okay. Well…. I can’t. Even with a VPN. I think they hardware ban.

spoof hwid

not that i recommend it unless you know what you are doing

I don’t even know what that means.

then yea best not to

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardwarehwididspoofer/comments/1t4j1ab/hwid_bans_and_hwid_spoofers_in_2026_30_most/

reddit doesnt have ring 0 so probably not a hw ban

maybe browser based?

ai response

• Account Bans: Suspensions or permanent bans applied directly to a specific user profile (either site-wide by Reddit admins or subreddit-specific by moderators). [1]
• IP Bans: Blocking a user's internet protocol (IP) address to stop them from browsing or posting from that network. [1, 2]
• Ban Evasion & Device Tracking: Reddit uses multiple signals—including tracking cookies, browser fingerprinting, app identifiers, and behavioral patterns—to detect when a banned user tries to spin up a fresh account. While mobile apps can read basic device telemetry, this does not function as a true low-level hardware component (motherboard/CPU/GPU) ban seen in online multiplayer video games. [1, 2, 3]

Whatever it is, they get me moments after I create an account.

I’m on iOS so I wouldn’t be able to do that anyway.

process is different but sure you would

how do they do it? whats the tech behind that? curious. but.. not revisiting that crap site lol

No idea.

A reddit community for making memes about drinking water. If I am remembering correctly it was banned because of the name which sparked protest from community members and caused the creation of numerous other imitation communities. This in turn resulted in cascading series of bans and other nonsense.

Here is how it go:

• most expensive AI/ML engineer was layoffs.
• the spam filter was make by middle or even intern with vibe code
• Reddit want to focus on clean, non-bot, human content (to sell for AI training), so the go hard on bot
• clean data above all else, some mistake is acceptable.
• and again, maybe the intern who work on this see this model "good enough"
• leadership don't want to spend more money to prevent incorrect catch. People are going to appeal anyway, why have to pay more ?

Exactly. I've been there. Though I'm surprised creating account from mobile got him perma banned. I've had a reddit account that's actively evading a ban, is now few years old, and yet haven't faced a re-ban.

I had accidentally posted to a sub I was banned from from an alt and now I cannot create a new account anymore. They catch it before I can even read a post.

Reddit's ban hammer is a powerful one. I was only able to create an account when I got a new phone. And that too I had to use a new email address, and never ever log into my laptop with this same account, unless I've switched to Linux.

If you can live with the fact you have to use a different OS on your pc if you want to login, or if you are okay with waiting till you buy a new phone, then you can evade reddit ban. Then again, never log into your old accounts, especially right now when ban is fresh.

Look, honestly, I don't think it's worth it. Especially with the current state of reddit. I myself barely log into reddit these days. And if all you do is lurk, you can already do it.

Oh it’s not work it at all. I’ve blocked all of Reddit from my browser. It won’t even fetch links related to searches.

They won’t have me, I won’t have them.

I just did this 5 minutes ago (date/time stamp: 08-Oct-2026 10:01:30)! I blocked www.reddit.com from my firewall's url filter.

I’m on iOS. I just use uBlacklist.

Reddit want to focus on clean, non-bot, human content

I'm afraid I can't do that, Spez.

Imagine if Reddit got rid of all the bots. Traffic would collapse overnight and I'd become one giant "India wins cricket match" site.

This post is really low on details.

I talked to moderators from various communities and other Reddit users. They all advised me to first earn 1k karma and only then post links

That's nonsense, almost no subreddit has that requirement.

This is why it feels bizarre to me how people are so stuck on the idea of reddit and reddit-like feed aggregation. The internet died due to enshitification and dead internet theory. But there's a third factor. Nobody seems to actually want how the internet used to be. They only nostalgia for and fantasize about the idea of it.

They shake their heads when served up content older style content that isn't bland corporatized slop. They want their familiar posts and handful of approved content sources.

Pretty much every subreddit started the way you described /r/startrek. Self posts and interesting links were the norm. Now most of them have a couple of pre-approved domains and posters.

Of course just about every mod's excuse I've heard is they can't be assed to actually moderate. So they set the automod filter to allow a few domains.

That's my generous take. By now I've seen enough to know for sure that couple of mods of certain subs have been abusing this as cover for their own personal gain. But that's another bunch of rants.

My main account from years ago got banned, but for a completely asinine and retarded reason.

I used to go on Analog Photography a lot, and it was full of people who would pay for a model and take a bunch of nude or erotic photographs, where the girls looked genuinely awkward half the time but the subreddit had this ridiculous rule that you weren't allowed to complain about it.

I made a joke comment about a particularly terrible photo being amazing and got banned from the subreddit. Then forgot months later when using an alt, made a comment and then got hit with a total ban. The site is fucking horrendous, the moderators have a ridiculous amount of power on there.

They made a website around avoiding spam to the point where it inconvenienced everyone and led to a pile on every time someone tried to share their work, yet sold everyone's data to AI scrapers and the Chinese. Terrible company.

More like 100 karma ime

Try this https://lemmy.world/post/52856407

I also got banned for ban evasion, except I didn't even do it. It was a 3 day ban in r/youll_be_banned where getting banned is literally the punchline, so I had zero reason to even evade that, so like why would I??

Anyway I should probably include all of the above logic in my next appeal whenever I feel up to it