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Let everyone have their own content.
A lot of the ban are automatic. Mods also use bots to make bans.
If you use a public computer, or an older system, you seem to get shadowbanned because your IP address is copied by a spammer and once that happens they use cross-editing to build a profile so even a new IP will get shadowbanned.
I had a 11 year old account on Reddit. Used it pretty much daily. Last week I got a 3-day ban. No idea what I wrote that was wrong, as Reddit removes the content. Two days after that ban, I got another 7day ban. Now I do know what post it refered too, and in no way it violated their rule about violence. So I appealed and, ofcourse, it was denied. Not ok, but I could let that pass, except the refusal refered to the wrong content, namely the one from the first ban. I appealed again and they just banned my account. I don't know if I'm even going to bother making a new one.
So apparently if they don't like your "appeals" they just perm ban you. That's bullshit. You will have to jump through a lot of hoops to create a new one that isn't banned in a day for ban evasion
Spend last night removing the account and one other I hadn't accessed in years (was even older than my main account). Made a new account, which lasted a few hours before getting banned.
You have to jump through a lot of hoops to get a new account to stick
Yes, Reddit moderators work like any other moderators in any other online community. They ban whatever they want.