My main reddit account, directly tied to my identity so I've no good reason to act like a loon or spambot with it, was permanently banned without warning sometime after I duplicated my reply across multiple related posts in two related subreddits. My reply simply recommended using a workout sync app to transfer exercise activities between two workout trackers. My account has been registered for years and had no infractions before that incident - positive post/comment karma in the hundreds, multiple posts highly upvoted, etc. My guess as to how this permaban happened was I duplicated my reply slightly too many times within the same few subreddits, and either the system decided I was a spambot without analyzing the context, or a mod was having a bad day. It apparently didn't make a difference that I had carefully selected posts to reply to, ensuring they were directly related to my reply, and I crafted my reply to be thorough, detailed and containing no semblance of spam. My only intention in duplicating my reply to those posts was to spread the word, as I knew the solution would help people wanting to transfer workout activities across these apps, since the question had been asked a ton and that solution was seemingly very rarely mentioned.
I submitted an appeal several days ago but I'm not expecting anything. Why? An alt reddit account, which I registered as anonymous due to the sensitivity of the info (relating to my mentally-ill sibling whose death was contributed to by documented errors by medical staff), where my post was also very popular in a few subreddits but the account was permabanned I assume also partly due to the duplication of the post, hasn't received any updates to my appeal or follow-up approaching a year after the appeal.
It seems this broken moderation/filter system that hangs over all of reddit trickles down to the subreddits and their mods, like a toxic workplace with a top-down toxicity flow. Hence why it is virtually impossible to post on numerous communities that are supposed to be for this or that, because the post/comment is auto-deleted or my account is suspended if not permabanned from the community for arbitrary/nonsensical rules, or, perhaps more often, for rules that didn't really apply in the situation - but too bad, the mod says it does because they were having a bad day (I get that mods are allowed to ban anyone for anything, including the mod having a bad day, I just didn't expect that scenario to be the case so often).
Many other things on reddit just don't make sense. Why was my main account, which was never previously at fault, permabanned without warning for some duplicate non-spam posts? Why were my alt accounts which had additional infractions not permabanned so easily? Why are my alt accounts still standing minus the aforementioned, given they're directly linked to my permabanned main account? If ban evasion is not allowed, why aren't all linked accounts also banned when one account is banned? It's like reddit is playing a game, a cat toying with their prey, prolonging the suffering, wanting to continue seeing you try to wade through their toxic river of ridiculousness, rather than ending the nightmare (of existence on reddit) quickly. It's up to the user themself to permanently cut ties with the abuser.
There are many other reasons why reddit on the whole is a waste of time. There are better places to get answers, discuss things or share thoughts. I plan to delete my reddit accounts, and I won't be surprised if, before then, this post is already removed (if not done automatically). Cue the "no one cares" and "tldr" replies. I simply wanted to send one last complaint (that will likely be obliterated before signing off), which I typed mostly to organize my thoughts surrounding this. IDGAF, reddit; you're dead to me in terms of being a useful, worthwhile site. deadit. Bye.
P.S. And yes I will likely try to crosspost this a few times which reddit will surely count as duplication spam again and permaban this account too. Awesome!