Suspending my alt... for what? : reddit

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Suspending my alt... for what? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I made an account 3 years ago to make a single post, which I wanted to be anonymous for. I logged in again today as I wanted an account for... um... science, and discovered I was banned a year ago. I find this ban incredibly odd as

I did not log into this account for two years between the post and the suspension
They do not state what rule I broke, which is not standard in my experience
They do not offer the opportunity to appeal, which I also believe is not standard
They tell me to make a new account. If I broke their rules, why would they want me to make a new account? Temp ban makes sense. Permaban makes sense. This makes no sense.

The only explanation I can think of is that they want to bump the user count.

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[–] IdiosyncraticIdiot 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

... um... science

The best kind of science

also, why are you logging in to conduct your research? Log in is not required

[–] Murdoc 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe using a vpn?

[–] IdiosyncraticIdiot 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Even worse!!! Why log in, ESPECIALLY if using a VPN, lol. Defeats the purpose of using a VPN by being like "hey reddit this is still me, just using a new IP"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Because reddit has blocked guest VPN users lately.

Definitely defeats the point, but its deliberate.