Found out Reddit permanently bans 7 million accounts a year and that number blew my mind

I was reading through some transparency report Reddit put out for 2023 and it said they ban roughly 7 million accounts annually for policy violations. That's like the entire population of Washington state getting kicked off every year. What I didn't realize is most of those are spam bots getting nuked before they even post anything, but still. Has anyone else looked into how many are actual real people versus bots in those numbers?

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the_max8h ago

Doubt most of those are actual people though. Bots get slapped with bans constantly before they even exist basically.

willow_ellis8h agoMost Upvoted

lol "before they even exist basically" that's me on a Tuesday fr fr. I'm pretty sure half my accounts over the years were banned just for existing wrong. Like one time I got banned for posting a meme in a subreddit I didn't even know existed yet. Real talk though, if 7 million is mostly bots, then the actual people getting banned must be like me - just making bad jokes at the wrong time. I've probably personally contributed like 0.00001% to that total without even trying.