Suspended Reddit account: what it means and how to appeal

Suspended vs banned from a subreddit vs shadowbanned

	Who does it	Does Reddit tell you?	Where it stops you
Suspended (sitewide ban)	Reddit	Yes, a banner and an inbox message with the reason	Everywhere on Reddit
Banned from a subreddit	That room's moderators	Yes, usually a message from the mods	Only that room
Shadowbanned (flagged for spam)	Reddit's spam systems	Usually not	Your posts and comments don't show to others

Reddit's help pages have moved from the word suspension to ban, so "temporarily banned" and "permanently banned" are what you'll read there today. People still search for suspended, and they mean the same thing.

While banned, Reddit says you can't vote, post, comment, send chats, report content, create communities or edit your posts. If you were a moderator, you lose mod tools too, and a permanent ban can remove you as a mod.

What it means for a marketer

The Reddit rules marketers break on the way to a sitewide ban are spam, vote manipulation and ban evasion, a second account used to get around an earlier action. For a brand, the risk is that it lands on the one account with all your history. Keep promotion a small share of what the account posts, never vote with accounts you control, and read the reason in the notice before you appeal. An appeal that explains what changed beats one that argues.