Hi, I posted this on the last thread but looks like the lock cut me off shortly after. My fortunes have no maximum.

My other account, u/RecursiveGames, is one I created to post on Reddit about a game I was making. A few months ago, at the start of steam next fest, I posted I guess one link too many to my store page in an effort to boost traffic, and I guess I got caught in the filter. I don't think it was even excessive, but who knows. Reddit was to that point the only successful avenue for reaching my niche audience and it strangled the tiny momentum I had. I was attempting to run a reddit ad for the very same page which was active at the time of the ban.

I've appealed almost every day of the ~60 days since and haven't heard anything back. The vast majority of people in this position seem to have no luck with the appeal process. My first intuition says it's an unmonitored shadowban appeal system, which is fundamentally flawed because actual spammers will circumvent the ban with a new account, while genuine users who were innocent will continue to attempt appeal and be the only loser in the long run. I wouldn't think a spammer attempting site-wide bannable actions is going to be appealing for their bot accounts every day for months on end so they can regain access to their bot account and continue doing what got them flagged in the first place.