i did recieve a temp ban at the beginning of the israeli/gaza conflict, but i avoided the sub like a plague up until the election season(before and after the election). its only starting last year reddit introduced things like V3 captcha from google(basically background bot detection which forces v2 captcha), and the most siginifcant using thier AI to indiscriminately ban people and seek previous accounts, even if a sub ban time has been lifted, so they were retroactive in thier bans too. at some point they switch to mostly shadowbanning because they were severely reducing the userbase and making the bot numbers too obivous.
i did recieve a temp ban at the beginning of the israeli/gaza conflict, but i avoided the sub like a plague up until the election season(before and after the election). its only starting last year reddit introduced things like V3 captcha from google(basically background bot detection which forces v2 captcha), and the most siginifcant using thier AI to indiscriminately ban people and seek previous accounts, even if a sub ban time has been lifted, so they were retroactive in thier bans too. at some point they switch to mostly shadowbanning because they were severely reducing the userbase and making the bot numbers too obivous.