A hit dog hollers, that's for sure. You likely pissed off an admin who was heavily leveraged in the crypto markets, or actively scamming users.

Seems like reddit's old reputation of being capricious and spiteful is still apt. Charming.

The appeals aren't monitored by humans in a meaningful way. You expect some human to look into it for 10 minutes, see that your comments aren't abusive and that there is some merit...

But they have someone once or twice a week look at a list of 200 appeals at a time, dismiss all 200 after glancing at the subject line of all of them together for 15 seconds, and then move on to the next page.

There is nothing they want from a 13 year old account. You're a liability. You still use old.reddit.com, they want to get rid of that without backlash. You want 2007's reddit back where you could have amazingly intelligent discussions on just about anything with dozens of other people who are essentially anonymous to you. They want to be Facebook, with ijits clicking on tiktok videos.

It's quite possibly they're just banning old accounts so they can re-invent themselves as a spammy Facebook/Instagram/whatever clone. You're in the way.

It'd be a mistake to assume that they're pro-bitcoin-scammer, when mostly they're just generically evil and want what you liked about Reddit to be long dead.

You can always file a lawsuit. In Germany, it's even easier, a C&D court order is enough here to make most of the social networks reconsider.

On what basis?

See e.g. this report: https://christian-saefken.de/abmahnen-aber-richtig/

With the value of website karma and account age being so high, you must be ruined

I’ve had an old account which I deleted since there was no easy way to clean up the post history. Created a new one and couldn’t do shit. Can’t post. No Karma. Account got closed due to “suspicious activity” a week later.

Combine that with the obviously hostile user interface. It’s a terrible terrible website and nowadays I don’t really miss it that much.

I'm not sure deleting your account deletes the posts for what it's worth. Definitely much harder to track the posts though.

Yep, creating a new reddit account nowadays is pretty tough, and forget participating in the current conversation as your stuff won't show up until a moderator approves it, which can take days.

deleting your account may not delete the posts.

Funny, something very similar happened to me. 15 year old account, 500k comment karma, called out crypto scam - I was temp banned for 3 days for harassment, and multiple accounts reported my posts for "risk of suicide". Then like 2 days after my ban ended, I made a fairly innocuous comment on a video of a man falling down a mountain after immediately failing his mountainbike stunt - and was perma banned. My comment was in response to someone who said something about how brave he was, and I said "It's not brave to throw yourself down a mountain. It's stupid". Anyways, that was enough to get my account permanently banned for "Hate". If that was the standard, I'm not sure how my account made it that long considering I've probably posted worse things than "That was stupid" over the years.

I know I'm by far not the only person to be banned for calling out crypto scams. At this point I wouldn't doubt a good deal of the scams are run from inside Reddit. Comments calling out scams often get downvoted 100x or more within seconds. Only a bot farm can do that. Any reasonable admin could see this and ban all the down voting accounts and the ones that upvote the post 100x as well but no, they ban the people getting downvoted for calling out the filthy scammer scum.

Reddit admins are paid by scammers