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All is not lost if your account is mistakenly suspended due to VPN usage. They still allow you to:

* Communicate with reddit admins via /r/reddit.com modmail

* Appeal your suspension via https://www.reddit.com/appeals

with a permanently suspended account. See https://reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045734911-My-acc...

Did that already, first for the original account, then the two older ones. Suspension reconfirmed almost immediately, on all three, indicative of an automated system in the backend. There is no Kimi (human intervention) behind this alleged appeal process.

This is sadly the case for may online platforms.

Did you try modmail to the global admins? That has to go somewhere that's read by actual humans.

I was permanently banned last year, for no reason I could find. I do somewhat rarely run a PIA VPN at times so maybe that flagged me.

I appealed the suspension, which sounded hopeless, but about 10 days later my account was restored.

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