The problem with that is that it's so locked down now you need an account of X age with Y karma, so the majority of the site isn't something you can participate in. And I get it, lots of spam accounts and whatnot, but still shitty that they're a hair trigger away from destroying years worth of built up karma over nothing.

In a fucked up way, yes. As in I think it's intentional/logical on their part. The culture of reddit has been changing for a while. I think they would want the "old heads" to leave, but also leave behind their posts/comments for others (and Reddit) to benefit off of.

That's why people use those web apps that overwrite their comments with garbage. But I always think about how Reddit controls the servers, data, and backups.

you can sell an reddit account?

How much karma was that? I lost 3 accounts and one had over 100k comment karma, so they lost another good user here as well.

I loved to post solutions to problems that never got solved on several subreddits, oh well.

So how does a person sell their account !?

IP banning in this day and age is crazy. Years ago I opened my app on hospital WiFi and instantly both of my accounts in there were banned for "ban evasion". Clearly someone used that IP address to get banned and now everyone using the public WiFi there is just getting banned.

It also made it clear that a big part of shutting down third party clients was so they could track us better. Made evident the minute my personal and work reddit accounts were banned together even though I never switched to the other login at all. With that move they could tie everyone's throwaways back to their real accounts.

Obligatory fuck Spez.