more and more you have to treat "reddit" as if it were an "internet" and have a separate account for every subreddit or group thereof.
One morning all of them - including the one that was 9 years old and had awards from participating in the first ever reddit gifts - got banned for "ban evasion".
Now I just make a new one every few months and distrust any account that can survive for more than a few years without getting banned.
So they encourage throwaways, but also ban you for using them.
Worst of all worlds.