I have an 8 year old Reddit account (alt acc) that has just been permanently suspended because I logged in from us-lax-wg-501.
Here’s how I know it was this server IP that Reddit instantly suspends, and not anything else.
- My account is 8 years old. Have been using it without any problems, have never gotten any warnings from Reddit and no temporary suspensions. Reddit normally gives a warning, followed by a few temporary suspensions (3, 7, 30 days) if a user breaks platform guidelines before permanently suspending an account. Have never even gotten a subreddit ban on this account before.
- I am a long term Reddit user and I know what is allowed and not allowed. And have read through the Reddit Rules, User Agreement, and Reddiquette thoroughly.
- I have logged in from other servers without any problems. Multiple different servers.
- I have verified email and 2FA set up, so Reddit knows the account is not hacked by logging in from a different server.
- I only/always use the same device with the same timezone every time.
- I only/always use the default Brave incognito whenever I log into this account. As incognito means there are no cookies stored, and Brave randomizes the browser fingerprint.
There are no warnings whatsoever, no messages by Reddit saying the account is suspended, no red bar at the top of the page, no emails. Just gone as verifiable by looking the profile up without logging in, I can comment but it doesn’t show publicly.
Reddit does not block the IP entirely like how they normally do; instead, it allows you to load Reddit as usual, but if you log in, your account is done for.
To really make sure that this is the case, I created a brand new account on the us-lax-wg-501 server, verify email, set up 2FA, and make 3 extremely vanilla comments the next day and gotten upvotes. Within 24 hours after making the comments, the account got permanently suspended. No rules were broken.
I can still log into other Reddit account using the same device and browser on incognito without any problems, as long as I do not use us-lax-wg-501. This confirms that Reddit has marked that particular IP as the problem while still allowing anyone to use Reddit on that IP.
Perhaps someone in the past has used this server to constantly conduct ban invasion.
Hope this helps others. I’m sure this won’t be the only one that is a problem, if you know of any other servers that are blacklisted by Reddit without outright getting blocked by their firewall, please share it below for the community.
