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PaperclipPerfector  4mo ago (text post)   3997 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for June 23, 2024

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How do I get a Reddit account, if my latest attempt to register led to an immediate site-wide shadowban? Page not found for the user page when opened in incognito mode.

Why you are even trying? ok-target-7361 posting will get you banned very soon anyway.

Do you mention violent impulses on Reddit as often as you do on here? I'm not a computers guy so I don't know what's to be done with an IP ban. Would a VPN get around that?

It's the inverse, Reddit had decided to dislike my VPN and I didn't want to make an account from my normal connection. Though they might have relented as I mentioned, I'll have to see.

Good luck. But I doubt anything you truly want, when you think about it, will be found on Reddit.

What I truly want can't be found outside of the realm of science fiction. I want to be a GSV or, barring that, the single living human aboard a GSV who humors my whims. I'll settle for an account to post in some approximately replacements subs for themotte, since by the comment count it's clearly dying. Also I want to simp for Elizabeth Rose Bloodflame somewhere.

Is there a particular reason that you are trying to evade your ban?

It's not even mine, Reddit decided that the whole IP block is naughty.

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I wanted to copy-paste the block screen it shows (with an option to make an account, which leads nowhere, as described) but suddenly the site opened. Maybe I'll try again later, if nobody has tips for roundabout methods.

Stop associating with naughty people then.

It can be easy to circumvent with cursory knowledge of computers and the internet. I humbly suggest that a quick google might provide you with the solution you seek. Should you not wish to self study, a clean machine at a public wifi spot will see you to your new account just fine.

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