I had my 15yo old reddit account still up which I was only using for outreach for threadiverse in places like /r/redditalternatives etc. Last week I got an email that they found some “suspicious behaviour” (of what? I never use it) and locked it, so I had to reset the password. I visited reddit directly to verify and discovered that it was indeed locked. So I reset my password, so far so good. Set a new password and everything. However when trying to login with the new password, it initially was giving me some rate limiting errors, and afterwards it was claiming “the username or password is wrong”. Also looking at my profile shows it has been restricted to 18+ user for some reason (I have nothing NSFW in it).
So looks like this is the anticlimactic end of that journey. Can’t say I’m sad, but I’m surprised it didn’t happen sooner given the amount of anti-reddit shit I’ve posted in the past 2.5 years :D
On the NSFW profile: There’s a one-off rule set in place, as best I can tell. If you’ve ever participated in a post or community that’s NSFW / quarantined / etc, even if your content itself was not NSFW or if the thread/community was SFW at the time but was later marked NSFW / quarantined, and even if you’ve since deleted your content or it was removed by mods, your profile will be marked as NSFW. At least, that’s how it appeared to work back in the day.
If you are 100% certain that you’ve never posted in an NSFW / quarantined thread/community and that nothing you’ve ever participation has since had a status change, then that might actually be evidence that there was some suspicious activity. No guarantee, of course, but for example if someone hacked into your account then posted a bunch of Only Fans shit that was quickly removed, it might lead to the locked account and the NSFW designation.
Granted, I’m not saying that you didn’t get banned for the anti-reddit comments and out-reach. I do know that anti-reddit comments aren’t necessarily automatically deleted / removed and accounts aren’t guaranteed to be banned for it. Usually, it seems like that’s reserved for cases where, objectively speaking, the comment was rule-breaking (common themes being abusive lanugage / name calling) or otherwise off-topic. I’ve seen numerous comments on Reddit talking about Lemmy, linking to Lemmy, as well as to other alternatives, even speaking unfavorably of Reddit and its dear leader, that stay up and are left untouched. But we also all know that all it takes is one prickly admin or ceo to take personal offense. Nature of the internet being what it is.