After 11 years on Reddit, my account got compromised, I was locked out, and then banned without help
Hey everyone,
I just joined here and wanted to share something that happened today and get your thoughts.
My Reddit account of about 11 years got compromised recently. I was suddenly logged out of my account and wasn’t able to log back in even after I changed my password. I tried everything I could think of, but I still couldn’t regain access.
Instead of getting help to recover or secure it, the account ended up being banned.What’s frustrating is I didn’t actually do anything to break rules. I’ve mostly just been a long-time user in a few niche communities, and in recent years I barely posted outside places like r/MichaelTheMovie and r/MichaelJackson.
There was no warning or real communication about what happened—just straight to a ban. I understand platforms need to act on security issues, but it feels weird that there wasn’t any support step in between to actually help recover the account first.
I even had to create a temporary account just to ask for help and figure out what was going on. And honestly, if it wasn’t for other Reddit users telling me I was banned, I would’ve never even known.
Has anyone here dealt with something similar on Reddit or other platforms? How did you handle it, and were you able to get your account back?
Curious to hear how others have dealt with this kind of situation.
Update: my account was unbanned overnight just checked my original username but i still don't have access to it can't log in at all
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Welcome to both the app and the club, brother! Many of us here are also refugees from Reddit.
Welcome to oddsrabbit, we’ve all been there bro
Sorry to hear that! Hearing there's a huge banwave recently, same with on X. Think these tech companies are all moving towards an AI-automated system which has been false-flagging a lot of legitimate accounts. The oddsrabbit X account was suspended for close to a month for no reason.
Same with Youtube, my channel got demonetized for Inauthentic Content (really). They use AI systems to do a ban wave with no human review whatsoever.
Yeah man, I think these days there are a lot of shadowbans or even actual bans that's happening on Reddit rn which is sad cuz if we try to appeal it's literally up to them if they wanna help or nah
This feels like it will be a running theme for how OddsRabbit will get bigger 😂
Profit over people. As long as they are making money, they don't care. They don't hire enough staff to handle these things either.
AI and Capitalists will make things worse. I do hope eventually AI makes things better, but it won't happen at first. We need to keep creating and supporting human-centered platforms like this.