this was a while ago, so i forgot the sub, but the mod of it permabanned me for speaking russian because “he and his friends didn’t like my culture.” i ranted about this in another sub, but i quickly became shadowbanned. eventually, i was permabanned from Reddit as i apparently violated a rule and harassed a guy? I didn’t even put the guys username, nor do I remember it—it was definitely generated by Reddit tho.
of course, it’s been a while ago, so I don’t want anyone to actually do anything, but this is more of a genuine question rather than “I have his username and all his details: I want him banned.”
Is the detection really that in-depth?
I could see them checking to see if an email is associated with a second account but using browser cookies or an IP address could cause issues for people who share a network or a computer.
I still see people using Reddit on library computers for example.
That said I’ve only heard of people getting tagged with ban evasion when they’re posting pretty blatantly as the person who just got banned.
I had been permanently banned and then reinstated. My experience was that you needed to jump through all those hoops to successfully set up a new account