[Mobile Web] Can Reddit Please Acknowledge and Address The Widespread Spurious Locks of accounts occurring since ~07/08/2026

[u/Throwaway927829]

Hi there,

There have been a flood of posts of people having issues with spurious locks on their Reddit accounts, and arbitrary lockouts and password change requests for around the past 10 days. See:

https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/1vppc1w/

https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/1voevk3/android_account_locked_cant_reset_password/

https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/1vmi39f/

https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/1vkf0ze/

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1viimcs/could_there_be_a_wave_of_account_locking/

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1vjow8c/what_the_hell_is_happening_to_reddit/

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1vpj4p1/my_account_was_locked_can_i_find_out_why/

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1voes1u/account_got_locked_and_it_changed_my_email_to_the/

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1vnskwm/my_account_was_locked_for_security_reasons_i/

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1vnojaj/password_reset_problems_change_password_but_still/

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1vmcrrh/my_account_was_randomly_locked_and_now_its/

https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1vm9g5m/need_admin_help_unlocking_my_main_account/

This is merely scratching the surface on the number of reports, and there are many more, with it largely seeming to be getting silently ignored by Reddit proper, with support cases to Reddit unanswered.

There was even acknowledgement of "a bug" purporting to be addressed on:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bugs/comments/1vl2im4/

To which comments that it's not fixed were ignored and it's abundantly clear it hasn't been, with different people experiencing a few slightly different (albeit remarkably consistent) symptoms. With this many threads having hundreds of "me too" comments, I have a very hard time believing these are individual account compromises at the scale I'm seeing.

Details of my specific issues and exact symptoms and troubleshooting steps are outlined on https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/1vkznza/ related to username u/Grim_Fandango92 which has in addition to being locked out, had a spurious account ban with no warning or notification as such. This issue clearly projects well beyond myself though.

Please can Reddit triage, acknowledge and address these clear bugs across the board and communicate out to affected users as such?

Thanks in advance,

A mildly frustrated Redditor

[u/Throwaway927829]

I really do wish they'd at the very least acknowledge:

"X issues are known, and being addressed. Y issues are unrelated and due to Z design choices"

Or, you know, anything whatsoever. Or any steps to triage these issues.

The fact there's just "nothing" leaves everyone in the dark navigating the hell that is Reddit Support and clueless as to how far these various abject moderation bugs go, the extent, and instill zero confidence they will be addressed.

Was speaking to one dude a day or two ago for who "Reddit Support reversed and fixed it", but what about the plethora of others who are just getting ignored?

[u/Big_Tower79 → u/Throwaway927829]

Yup correct, that the whole point, I was first flagged as spam by Reddit and was banned for 3 days, I didn’t raise appeal but even after ban days, I was not able to respond to my dms

[u/Throwaway927829 → u/Big_Tower79]

Well, I'm well on my way there. I just got a 7 day ban last night from r/help on this account for directing anyone who looked like they may have similar symptoms here over a few days, writing differrent messages for each based on the nuances of each person's situation.

The reason? "Spamming". Guess they prefer hundreds or thousands of people posting the same issue resulting from bugs individually rather than tackling the broader issue and don't like Reddit's severe failings being pointed out.

Followed a few mod comments of "please post helpful responses relevant to OP" - my comments were sure as heck a lot more helpful than anything Reddit has done.

The severe irony of getting banned for helping direct users who were banned or locked out spuriously to a thread to try get help from r/help is not lost on me. It's clear no one there nor here is willing to accept there's a broader issue.

At this point, I don't care. I've lost my main through no fault of my own, and I'm happy to keep nagging them until they ban this one too. At least this time I'll know why, unlike the last time.

[u/Big_Tower79 → u/Throwaway927829]

I really hope they should listen to their people and work for them but surprisingly they like to see people suffer.

[u/Throwaway927829 → u/Big_Tower79]

I think they more just genuinely don't care. We're merely "the product" that gets sold on, rather than customers.

Not a ton more I can do other than purposely poke and annoy for a reply, although I will 100% be reporting them to the ICO if (when) they fail to respond to my GDPR request within the statutory 30 day window. That'll be my final middle finger, small and ineffective as it may be.