Hello, I recently encountered a slew of events that didn t quite sit right with me and I needed to get this off my chest. Note that this is NOT an appeal to get un-infracted. I just feel really unhappy and I need to talk about it in relation to the question in the title.For context, Reddit encourages use of alts/alternative accounts, which is baked into its own app UX (same device alt switching).#### Incident 1 Slightly under a year ago, r/Glowups had a rule where all accounts who have previously commented on a NSFW subreddit get permanently banned from the sub, of which you can find multiple supporting references:https://imgur.com/xzaosHR source: https://www.reddit.com/r/unfairbanning/comments/1nmn0u6/banned_from_glowups_because_i_have_nsfw_content/https://imgur.com/Wm2S9xY source: https://www.reddit.com/r/acotar/comments/1gczet6/comment/ltywbum/https://imgur.com/Uy4P6Rp source: https://www.reddit.com/r/RandomThoughts/comments/1mauak8/comment/n5hhl2k/At the time (2025) this was a site-wide, automatic, and enforceable ban on any NSFW tagged account (eg. especially if you were following NSFW jokes like r/chairsunderwater or NSFW advice like r/sexadvice).- I was (unknowingly) caught in the automated blanket ban on one of my accounts.- Because I follow similarly themed subs (r/UglyDuckling, r/Glowups) on all of my alts, Reddit s algorithm pushed r/Glowups to the fyp of one of my accounts.Result: I commented on algo-pushed content from r/Glowups BEFORE I had even logged into the banned account to realize I had been banned.All of my accounts therefore received the ban evasion serious infraction strike from something that was essentially not yet visible to me.I didn t even try to appeal this because (1) I was busy jobhunting at the time and (2) the reddit appeal textbox is only 250 characters long.#### Incident 2 I posted a suggestion that there should be a way to block subreddits cross-account so that binding and permanent penalties are not so easily trippedhttps://imgur.com/gDeqvfg source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ideasfortheadmins/s/BPrmbihDueMy suggestion received support (refer to the links) and was removed because aim to focus on ... constructive, and avoid being destructive... The last line is what got me thinking- it suggests that features assisting rule compliance is dangerous for Reddit somehow?#### Incident 3 I was helping someone who appeared to be overpaying for a helper service. I was wrongfully banned for a fuzzy keyword match that later repealed.https://imgur.com/0q58xMd (ban)https://imgur.com/PnXbrj8 (repeal)However, due to the ban (before the repeal) I went on an alt which was 5 years old. Guess what happens when the reddit algorithm pushes you content from subs from 5 years ago... I tripped the ban evasion filter again. Permanent ban.I have been very addicted to Reddit in the past two weeks, so maybe it is good that I got permabanned so I can give myself some space and reclaim my life. I am just kind of sad that I will not be able to contribute to or interact with the less neurotic reddit LLM/data/cs spaces ever again.In tl;dr: my sensing from my 3 incident experiences is that Reddit s design has zero intention of encouraging compliance to its rules (the opposite, actually): - Their own algorithm encourages ban evasion - Any suggestion to let users comply with rules by self-exclusion from subreddits is censored/suppressedI think the only way I could ever have avoided this was if I had obsessively devoted more of my 9-5 working hours chasing Reddit absolution through the numerous subreddits with automated blanket banning capabilities. Which I honestly don t think is ever realistic for me.Thanks for reading and sorry for my question having so many rant-ish points. I just really needed to post about this to process things and get some thoughts.