I had a 17 year old account that got shadow banned so I went ahead and deleted it. All comments I've ever made there were in good faith and respectful and I avoided hot topic discussions (i.e. the entirety of the front page). It's no big deal. I'd say up until 2014 or so the site was pretty decent. The decline in quality in recent years is especially remarkable. Maybe they are trying to do something about this, resulting in people getting caught in the crossfire. I've moved to old-school forums for niche topics of interest. Even niche subreddits have really poor discourse these days. I'm tired of interacting with random user names as well. It's nice to recognize who you are talking to.
Yes, I wouldn't expect the ban to be listen any time soon.
For reference I was shadowbanned for an unknown reason, probably by posting too much on new threads in a subreddit, if I had to guess. This isn't a full ban, just a shadow ban. I've been banned for 2 months and have been appealing every day and from what I can see it might take me up to a year or perhaps the ban will never be lifted. And I am 100% sure that I've done nothing against content policies.
You on the other hand have an actual ban for Content Policy violations. Maybe someone up voted too much Luigi content or posts that advocated for violence (and they have a very loose interpretation of this). Who knows. But you got a real ban and they don't want you there. Now that you have created another account which was caught you also have ban evasion on record.
If you want you can do daily appeals like I am but in your case I wouldn't expect the ban to ever be lifted, and would look at either moving on from Reddit or creating a new account with a new IP and keeping it entirely firewalled, permanently. (And this is probably no easy task since you are likely going to need to use a VPN, but keep in mind Reddit often shadowbans for using VPNs).
Been on Reddit since Aaron sent me an invite. Been active for a decade with hundreds of thousands of karma. Permabanned three years ago for discussing the role of Ghislaine Maxwell as super mod u/maxwellhill and subsequent accounts have been permabanned - assuming they're using device fingerprinting as accounts used different IP addresses, different emails etc.
Reddit is infuriating. The best community moderation system of up and down votes, with the most toxic bunch of information and cognitive warfare operatives soiling it with their manipulative bullshit moderation.
Reddit today is nothing more than a sandpit for testing novel psychological warfare techniques.
I had a 17 year old account that got shadow banned so I went ahead and deleted it. All comments I've ever made there were in good faith and respectful and I avoided hot topic discussions (i.e. the entirety of the front page). It's no big deal. I'd say up until 2014 or so the site was pretty decent. The decline in quality in recent years is especially remarkable. Maybe they are trying to do something about this, resulting in people getting caught in the crossfire. I've moved to old-school forums for niche topics of interest. Even niche subreddits have really poor discourse these days. I'm tired of interacting with random user names as well. It's nice to recognize who you are talking to.
Yes, I wouldn't expect the ban to be listen any time soon.
For reference I was shadowbanned for an unknown reason, probably by posting too much on new threads in a subreddit, if I had to guess. This isn't a full ban, just a shadow ban. I've been banned for 2 months and have been appealing every day and from what I can see it might take me up to a year or perhaps the ban will never be lifted. And I am 100% sure that I've done nothing against content policies.
You on the other hand have an actual ban for Content Policy violations. Maybe someone up voted too much Luigi content or posts that advocated for violence (and they have a very loose interpretation of this). Who knows. But you got a real ban and they don't want you there. Now that you have created another account which was caught you also have ban evasion on record.
If you want you can do daily appeals like I am but in your case I wouldn't expect the ban to ever be lifted, and would look at either moving on from Reddit or creating a new account with a new IP and keeping it entirely firewalled, permanently. (And this is probably no easy task since you are likely going to need to use a VPN, but keep in mind Reddit often shadowbans for using VPNs).
Maybe this is a sign to try something different with your time.
Been on Reddit since Aaron sent me an invite. Been active for a decade with hundreds of thousands of karma. Permabanned three years ago for discussing the role of Ghislaine Maxwell as super mod u/maxwellhill and subsequent accounts have been permabanned - assuming they're using device fingerprinting as accounts used different IP addresses, different emails etc.
Reddit is infuriating. The best community moderation system of up and down votes, with the most toxic bunch of information and cognitive warfare operatives soiling it with their manipulative bullshit moderation.
Reddit today is nothing more than a sandpit for testing novel psychological warfare techniques.
It's a private platform, the moment you click "agree" on their TOS/EULA it is "over" for you as far as conflict remediation is concerned.
As good a reason as any to quit letting online services have this much control over your mental wellbeing.