How do you get around suspension ban? If I deactivate "banned" profile, does it help?

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[–]Node 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

I would like to continue to use reddit in the future.

While this smacks of sticking with your abuser, aside from all the other negatives of reddit, there are a couple things you could try. First, lose your IP address. Next, lose your old computer or phone, OR change your MAC address as I linked in your previous post.

Both your IP address and your MAC address are known to reddit, and linked to your banned account. Until you change both of those, your chances of successfully making a new account are slim. "Oh look, it's /u/marni1234 again" - reddit

Note that just changing your MAC address won't address the issue of persistent reddit cookies on your device, or your browser profile if they go to that extent. And yes, then you could have zero interaction with your old accounts on your new clean device or they'd know it's you again.

[–]marni1234[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Appreciate it.

Do I need to delete cookies/clear cache every time I use my account?

I actually lasted about 3 months with a new profile using opera but they still figured me out, based on a subreddit-banned profile still being up.

Do you know if my deactivation erases whatever the moderators have on me (including comments), or is that archived?

Even when I deleted the comments themselves, they linked back to it.

What can I say, I'm an internet addict and most of my human interaction is on social media, while doing an extremely tedious menial job.

[–]Node 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/steven-joel-akins-penelope-penny-verity-oaken-u-bardfinn-penny-witchette-finning-widget-mutabilesemper.85310/

Here's what reddit tolerates in mods. It's up to 53 pages now, filled with criminal history, child and wife abuse, pretending to be a girl, and amazing levels of psychopathic behaviors. Maybe your old account is in its "database of 30,000 Nazi reddit accounts", based on ever commenting in a "hate" sub.

Do I need to delete cookies/clear cache every time I use my account?

You shouldn't need to, once you have a clean new account. Just don't taint it by interacting with your old account. Maybe you can first log into your old account and delete it?

Even when I deleted the comments themselves, they linked back to it.

Delete your old accounts. Maybe use that script that auto-deletes all your comments first.

After changing your IP address (or using a VPN) and deleting all reddit cookies, try making a new account.

If that doesn't work, you may need to change your MAC address, or buy a new device.

To protect your new account, don't have similar interactions as your old account, and don't make the same comments in the same places as your old account did.

Good luck!

[–]marni1234[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What script are you referring to?

If I started a proflie on another computer - e.g. a work computer/their VPN-and then use on personal computer, would that trigger anything?

Part of what I'm trying to do is have dummies lying around to age, even if they're dormant

[–]Node 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Delete your old accounts. Maybe use that script that auto-deletes all your comments first.

https://www.google.com/search?q=script+that+auto-deletes+all+your+comments

https://www.alphr.com/delete-all-reddit-comments/ (first result of that search - check for others by adding reddit to the term)

I'm not an expert on ban evasion (lol), but what you want to avoid is any connection to your old accounts that would alert them. The VPN should solve the IP address problem, although some sites block VPN account creation. Try it and see what happens. The personal computer should be okay if it has no reddit cookies on it, and reddit hasn't identified its MAC address as belonging to you.

The worst case is that you'd just lose those accounts and have to be more diligent in shedding past connections next time.

Back when I used reddit, I had around 8 or so spares as a backup, and for specific contexts. They were probably all linked to my 'permanently suspended' account and banned too.