I got into this situation because something was marked as harassment on my Reddit account, which banned me for 3 days. I had no intention to cause harm, I was just correcting someone over a movie detail that involved transgender but did not criticize trans people at all, but that’s not the issue. For some reason, I panicked, wasn’t thinking straight, and proceeded to delete that account and make a new one, which is ban evasion. I’m stupid, and for some reason I thought I could make a new account and it’d be fine. I didn’t even need Reddit at that time or used it very often at all, so I don’t know why I did that. My account got shadow banned a few hours later, which is permanent. What I did was stupid, and I regret my decisions. I’ll stay away from anything remotely controversial next time, and I won’t create accounts to circumvent the ban again. I never had a malicious intent though, I just want to use Reddit to ask specific questions, socialize about interests, and help others. I contacted Reddit through a support ticket a few times (once a week) and it has been almost a month, yet there is no response, though I’ve heard it can take several months for a response, if they respond at all, and I could possibly be filing too many tickets. I think it disabled me from logging into the banned account to appeal, so I can’t appeal another way. Since I broke the ToS, I am wondering if there is any hope for me. I consider Reddit to be useful in some aspects so it is a bit of a bummer, but it is the consequences of my actions I guess. A permanent life ban is a lot though :/ but it’s just a website. It’d be nice to get my account back which is why I am asking, but I totally understand if I can’t use Reddit again. Reddit sucks overall but it can be useful sometimes. I’ll move on though

Posted this somewhere else but found out this was a better community

  • cinoreus@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Sorry, you’re screwed. Reddits permaban is a pretty strong one. I had my account permabanned a few years ago, and nothing could be done about it, especially since you created a new account to circumvent the ban, it’s the final nail in the coffin.

    Don’t worry though, I don’t think you are missing anything. Matter of fact, I was able to circumvent the Ban, when I got a new phone, but you have to create a new account with a completely new email address. Or if you’re on computer, just changing the operating system and doing the rest like I said is enough to circumvent the ban.

    Again, I would say use this as an opportunity and try getting off social media app.