Got banned 6 times before I figured out Reddit has patterns you can track
Most people think Reddit bans are random.
They're not.
I tracked mine. All six of them. Which subreddit. What I posted. How fast. Account age. What time.
Patterns showed up.
What the data revealed
Small subreddits under 100k members were way more forgiving than the big ones everyone chases.
New accounts under 30 days got scrutinized no matter how much karma you had.
Commenting 3+ times in an hour triggered spam filters even if you were being helpful.
Posting in the same subreddit within 5 days looked like spam to mods.
Rest periods mattered. Taking 2-3 days off between activity kept you invisible.
Why this matters
My second product failed because I couldn't stay alive on Reddit long enough for people to see it.
Made one sale. Then got banned before I could find customer two.
The advice everyone gives is useless. "Be authentic." "Add value." I did that. Still got banned.
Because the real rules aren't written down. You learn them by failing.
Built MediaFast from that pain
After I finally cracked Reddit (account seven, using patterns instead of advice), I thought about everyone else stuck in the same cycle.
So I built MediaFast.
What it does:
Finds which subreddits in your niche actually allow product mentions
Shows what content format works in each one
Builds a 30-day posting roadmap with exact timing
Tells you when to post vs when to comment
Includes pacing that keeps you off mod radar
It's the system I wish I had when I was getting banned every week.
Launched February 10, 2025. Now helping builders who are stuck where I was.
If Reddit keeps killing your distribution, this might help.
I tracked 6 bans to figure this out. You don't have to.
Reddit moderation is heavily pattern-based, so repeated bans usually signal detectable behavior like link velocity, self-promotion ratios, or account history signals. If you focus on genuine participation, diversify traffic sources, and treat Reddit as community-first rather than distribution-first, bans typically stop.
the pacing insight is the most underrated part of this. everyone focuses on what to post but almost nobody talks about velocity limits. had the same experience promoting AI video tools on reddit - the posts that survived were always spaced out with genuine comment engagement in between.
the small subreddit strategy is real too. r/aivideo with 30k members drove more actual signups for us than r/artificial with 1M+. smaller communities have higher intent users and mods who actually read your post before deciding.
one pattern i noticed that might help your users: the first comment on your own post matters more than the post itself. if you drop a genuinely useful follow-up comment within 10 minutes with extra context or a resource, it signals to mods that youre contributing not just promoting.
The “rules aren’t written, you learn by getting banned” line really resonates. Feels like Reddit is more about pattern detection than moderation. Turning that into a system instead of advice makes a lot of sense.
Love this data-driven approach! Most people just complain about Reddit mods, but reverse-engineering the actual velocity limits and account age requirements is super smart.
I actually just finished a massive tracking project on Reddit too, but from the SEO/Google side. I was trying to figure out why my traffic kept dying even after I successfully got a post live without getting banned.
I tracked about 800 Reddit/UGC URLs ranking on Google for commercial keywords and found out that 56% of them get rotated off Page 1 within 48 hours.
It really feels like a two-front war for founders right now:
Phase 1: Surviving the subreddit filters and mods (which your tool solves perfectly).
Phase 2: Surviving the Google SERP churn.
Super impressive that you turned the pain of 6 bans into a product. Out of curiosity, are you pulling the subreddit data manually, or how are you dealing with Reddit's recent API restrictions for MediaFast?