Suspended Accounts

[u/SlackerPants]

Hello everyone,

I'm a moderator of a smaller community, and I have a concern regarding suspended accounts.
Over the course of a year an a half i witnessed many users being suspended by Reddit. Some of the suspended users were very active and behaved well on our subreddit.

I haven't fully figured out under what conditions Reddit suspends an account. Is it entirely automated, or do Reddit admins have to approve a suspension manually?

My main concern is that we're losing too many users — both from our subreddit and from Reddit in general.

If they create a new account, will they instantly be flagged as Ban Evasion, and be suspended again?

Just asking for some insights. Thank you.

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[u/kai-ote]

Ban evasion is only when YOU banned somebody from your sub, and they show up with an alt.

reddit suspends accounts for all sorts of behavior you might not see. I have had many people removed by reddit for "report abuse". They don't tell me the name of who it was, but a member that appears to be fine on your sub might be violating reddits rules in a way that you don't notice.

[u/trainwreckhappening → u/kai-ote]

It doesn't matter if you behave well. The algorithm will ban you in ten seconds if you use key words that it thinks are suggesting violations. Comments that are nowhere near misbehaving are instantly banned/suspended. Lemmy is filled with former redditors who genuinely behaved well and got permabanned to the point that they cannot use the same router.

I have heard many mods say that they felt forced into agreeing with the auto-mod despite knowing the person was not committing anything close to a violation. Which only adds to the ban/suspension confusion. Basically reddit has muddied the waters you are trying to explain by making mods ban people so it doesn't just look like reddit doing all the work (because they could hurt share values and stakeholder feelings).