There is a big banner across reddit’s page when you are banned. It’s pink, with a hammer logo. It will have a link to form for appeal, which is manned by a monkey trained to click “denied”.

Also congratulations.

If you wish to create a new account, it will become necessary to never log into the old one, even to read replies you might’ve gotten late. You will need to get a new ip address, you will need to create a new email (Yahoo still lets you create them, apparently)… doing the [email protected] is apparently something they check for. It is also likely true that they use third-party tracking, so you may need Firefox and Facebook-container or similar installed.

Given that you were banned because someone reported you, if you announce that you were OldUsername in a post or comment, then when your hecklers go find it, they can report you for ban evasion and get you banned again. So resist the urge.

Honestly, it’s mostly not worth it though. Whatever you did to get you banned in the first place will happen again. And in many places, you aren’t allowed to comment without an older account or a higher score. It’d be better to accept that reddit is dead, even if at one point you enjoyed the website.

Lemmy fixes some of what’s wrong with reddit. Let’s see how long it lasts before problems emerge.