My old account was hacked and banned so I made this new one.

my account was hacked and spammed porn subreddits 🥲 i changed my password and sent several appeals but it’s been months of being banned

I got an email around 3:30 in the morning with a notice from Reddit admin saying I had been caught in the spam filter and they restored my account.

For those that want to know what I did specifically. Honestly, I don't know. I truly don't think there is a tried and true formula to get them to review your ban.

My ban had been in place for around 2 months before I got that email. And during that time, I combed through this sub, just like everyone else does, to try to figure out how to get my account released and what the cause could potentially be?

●VPN use? - I have used a VPN in the past. I cannot say with certainty that my VPN was on whenever I was on Reddit, but it was very possible because sometimes I did not remember to cut it off and did not know it could cause an issue anyway.

●Posting issues? - I have had a comment and a post removed by the moderator in a sub that I frequent ...... could have been a trigger.

●Marked as spam or bot? - There was a post that I put in another sub that was not well received. That post could have been marked as spam by someone who didn't like it.

I say all that to say, I literally have no idea what was the cause or what triggered a review because every appeal that I sent referenced, one or more of those potential reasons. And it was just a request to please review and release my account.

Frequency probably wasn't a factor either, because while I saw a lot of people say either appeal every day or appeal every other day consistently for weeks. I have ADHD and I only appealed when I thought about it, which was not very consistently. Sometimes it was once a week. Sometimes it was twice a week, sometimes I forgot and it might have been once every couple of weeks.

I know this wasn't as helpful as you guys may have wished it would be. But I see this question a lot about what did you do? So I thought I would give my honest response.

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Can anybody see me?? DM me...

hey gents, so i posted some comment in one friendly subreddit(learning languages) and i got replied today somehow. How is it possible if i am shadowbanned?

[ Removed by Reddit on account of violating the content policy. ]

Am i?