So, I got permanently banned from reddit after 11 years, because I had the bad idea one morning to post a comment in a German sub. I used an alternative account for this, since I only intended to use my 11 year old main account for posts in my own little sub only. I hadn't done much else with the alternate account until then, though - but I hadn't used it to post much of anything else either, certainly not in any German sub. Anyway, when I tried that one morning, it didn't work for some reason. I couldn't send the comment. I thought this was a technical problem or something and switched the account to yet another alternate account that was still fairly new and hadn't posted hardly anything yet - but again it didn't work. So I switched back to the other alternative account I had tried first and created my own post on the sub, trying to figure out and at the same time asking directly if it was even possible for me to post there. This time it worked, but the reactions were bad, because all comments under this post insulted me partly very deeply in an attacking way - mainly for contents on my own sub, because there I had collected a lot of curious posts about Antarctica, German antigravity technology, ghost rockets, extraterrestrials and similar things in the context of the research for the topic of my latest music album, among them also theoretical treatises about the Hollow Earth. Nevertheless, I was called a "flatearther" and that was not even the worst of it. According to my nature I reacted with cynical calmness to these hostilities, promptly my alternative account was banned for 1 week. I didn't get any notification or warning that my account was now excluded from this sub, my post there wasn't deleted either, instead more insults and hostilities came in during my absence. I did not use another account to respond to this, but went there again with the account with which the post had been created, after this week of penalty, because it was not deleted and I was not banned there, to write that I found it regrettable that users of reddit can be excluded from a sub from the outset for any posts that they have posted in a completely different sub. I didn't go into insults at all. The result of this was then a few minutes later, ALL of my accounts on reddit were PERMANENTLY banned. Including my 11 year old main account, which had not been involved in this whole incident in any way.

Because I felt justifiably unfairly treated, of course, I wrote to support. After two machine rejections that in no way addressed my concerns, I even asked for interaction with a human being - with the result that I got no responses at all, from the system or anyone else anymore. Instead, a user ironically named "randomadvicehelpplz" commented on a four or five year old post of mine about my cat, which had died under tragic circumstances in a neighbor's washing machine at the time. This user must not only have taken the time to search my entire reddit history, he must also have seen posts there that were no longer shown to others, because first, my entire profile is no longer visible since I've been permanently banned, it is not even visible to myself anymore, second, I had already been banned from the sub (/r/self) for over a year because I had once posted in some conspiracy sub. (Although this in no way had anything to do with my contributions in other subs, it was probably reason enough to exclude me there permanently. One does wonder what kind of strange methods this is supposed to be. I would think this is the fascism everyone always talks about, but they call it democracy, it seems to me. )

Well, anyway, an ordinary user would not have been able to see this old post of mine, nor comment on it. No one can comment on 4 or 5 year old posts on reddit, certainly not deleted posts from permanently banned users. Well, this user in question called me "mentally ill" and my cat "dumbass" under this post about the tragedy, and to all appearances would have loved to add that I put my cat in the washing machine myself. So much hate in a single comment. They must be pretty pathetic psychopaths lurking behind the scenes at reddit.

I don't think I want my account to be reactivated anymore and I should be glad that reddit deactivated it. Then I don't have to do it myself.