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

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    Permabans are just that. Wait 100 days for your IP info to be cleared from their system and set up a new account… OR… do the better thing, and stay here and help build up a friendliwer, less censored, more decentralized group of forums.

    I was 2 weeks shy of 15 years on Reddit, got sniped by a 'bot for a metaphorical statement and was banned… Found old lemmy.zip, signed up and started expanding to other servers and picking up subscri[ptions on different instances - t’s amazing! - its like Reddit was when I first found it in 2009, and I haven’t skipped a beat or missed Reddit one bit.

    Dig in your heels and stick around and build / find a nicer community here. When the penny drops on how the comms work and the instances are federated, you will find there is more variety than you know.

    Lemmy is WAAY better.

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      The problem here is that there is not many people, especially in communities I am interested in there’s like 10 people :(