Karma, shadowbans and the signals moderators use to spot automated accounts, from running 200 Reddit accounts: what a usable account needs and what ends one.

3 articles

Reddit shadowban: how to check, avoid and recover (2026)

Your posts look live to you and nobody sees them. How to check from a logged-out window, the four triggers, and the three ways out. From 200 accounts.

Konstantin Anisimov · June 9, 2026

How to get Reddit karma in 2026: what 200 accounts taught us

From a test across 200 Reddit accounts: daily limits by account type, the formats that earn karma, the repost that pulls thousands, and what gets you flagged.

Konstantin Anisimov · June 9, 2026

Reddit bot detection: the signals mods use (2026)

Pangram, the Reddit Bot Detector repo and mod AMAs name the same four signal buckets. Read inverted, they are the rules for an account that never gets flagged.

Konstantin Anisimov · May 18, 2026