No warning, not even a “Don’t do it again email” - I had a work account, that was logged in on my works laptop, I made a comment critical of Netanyahu, and the Gaza genocide, which got that account banned from /pics. This was months ago, then I made a comment on pics, on my main account. That’s it, gone, banned.
I even have another spare account, from 2008, logged in to that, that’s banned too. FFS!
No luck on appeals, so I guess no more reddit, ever again. Anyone managed to get around this?
I only use Reddit at work on my work desktop. Over the last handful of years I’ve gone through a shit ton of Reddit accounts, but they last weeks/months until I say one of the many, many things you can get bot banned for on Reddit, which I inevitably do, because I am not nice to fascists and I don’t care if I get banned for being mean to fascists.
So I’m not sure about the IP thing.
I’m statically assigned an internal IP, so that never changes. And my public IP should also remain the same for weeks/months as far as I know.
It would be interesting to have a network admin’s thoughts on this. Am I somehow being assigned a new public IP on a daily basis? That’s handled on the ISP’s side. Does my workplace have an agreement with the ISP to change public IP’s every day? Cuz sometimes I only make it a day or two before telling a fascist the only good fascist is a dead one and getting banned.
I use the Brave browser and only use private windows. When I’m banned I clear the browser, making sure everything, including cookies, are wiped. I re-open the browser in a private window, create a new throwaway email account, use it to create a new Reddit account, and I’m back in until, like you, I hurt conservative fee fees.
I always thought an IP ban would be bad for their business cuz then one person could get a multi-user computer banned and Reddit would lose users that way. Not that I would put it past Reddit to make bad decisions. I’ve been watching them do it for almost two decades now.
Network admin here, your internal IPv4 address doesn’t matter, external people don’t see it. Your work likely has a static block of external IPv4 addresses and it’s possible that they are rotated through over time so your effective external IP changes slowly. This depends on how big your work organization is and how your network admin set things up
But could it be rotating external addresses literally every day or two?
Like I said, I only make it a day or two with some of these accounts before I say something I typically know will get me banned and I just don’t care. Then I’m back in with my new account. It’s fully functional. I check to make sure I’m not shadowbanned. I get activity on my posts. And those accounts can be good for months.
I just don’t see how Reddit can be IP banning if I’m able to do this.
Yes. It’s Port Address Translation with a pool of external IPv4 addresses
Interesting. It’s an extension of NAT.
So you would have to purchase a pool of external IP addresses from your ISP?
So, technically, if you had PAT on your home router, which I’m not even sure is a thing, and purchased external IPs from your ISP, you could cheat Reddit’s IP ban, assuming they actually have an IP ban in place?
But regular external IPs get cycled every few weeks/months, right? So wouldn’t anyone with a Reddit IP ban be able to get back in with a new account once their external IP naturally cycles?
I mean if Reddit banned based on more than IP, like my computer’s MAC address, then any new account I created would be insta-banned for having the same MAC. I’ve been using this same computer for a few years now.
MACs are not seen by Reddit - that’s layer 2 info that only your ISP sees. All they see is your external IP. Most home users don’t have a static IP or static pool and can likely get a new IP - that’s called a dynamic IP. As to your point about IP ban evasion, they are used to home users having dynamic IPs so they probably don’t depend on IP bans at all - likely client fingerprinting (cookies, user-agent string, other browser identifiers) and usage, like what subreddits you go to