If you're on cell service and not wifi, it's easy to end up with an originating IP the same as someone else; the same as if you had used a VPN.
This was through PC on cable, so still not sure what caused the ''ban evasion'' message besides the one comment I made lol
Other Redditors in your house? I have also seen people in the same Apartment complex behind CGNAT end up with same IP.
Ban Evasion is usually because they are seeing something on their end, that looks like you're also someone they've banned before. IP address, usually.
There are lots of things nowadays that cause you to share IPv4 addresses because we literally ran out of ones to assign.
It just means some shitheel is sharing the same internet as you. My older daughter got banned from instagram the same way, when her younger sister tried to sign up for it and put her real age. As soon as they saw someone from the same IP sign up as "under 13", the system just went "NOPE, STOP EVERYTHING" and banned every account in use at that IP address.
You weren't banned for the content. You were banned due to some fuzzy network moderation; which is hitting more and more people now as more and more of them share IP address space.
Yup reddit lets you create an account in seconds, no email verification at all, they're extremely ban happy and it's only got worse in the last year.
I am looking for mods!
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