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Notes on Reddit Accounts

Why accounts get shadowbanned or banned, and how karma gates which communities will accept you.

How to Avoid a Reddit Shadowban

Why Reddit shadowbans accounts, how the platform detects automation, and how to verify and appeal your account status.

Shadowbans do not expire on their own. How to tell whether you have one, how long appeals take, and how to get an account restored.

Community rules, the 9:1 self-promotion guideline, and how to build account authority without tripping a ban.

Which violations get a community shut down, how to report one that breaks the rules, and what happens after you file.

How post and comment karma work, why the score gates which subreddits will accept you, and what upvotes actually change.

Native formatting, account warming, and the self-promotion rules most people only read after being removed.

How we built a tool that types into Reddit's comment box without tripping its anti-bot systems.

Reddit's Shadow DOM, the Lexical editor, and the Chrome Debugger API workaround that made the extension possible.

Step-by-step walkthroughs live in the guides.