Which behaviors can result in site-wide suspension or account termination?

Reddit's administrators can impose site-wide suspensions ranging from temporary three-day bans to permanent termination of the account, and the most severe cases result in what some users describe as a "permanent suspension with prejudice" — where any new account created by the same person is automatically suspended upon detection. Understanding which behaviors invite these outcomes is essential for anyone who values their account. The clearest path to permanent account termination is engaging in behaviors that violate the absolute rules of the platform: sharing child sexual abuse material or sexual content involving minors is a zero-tolerance offense that results in immediate permanent suspension and may involve law enforcement referral. Sharing non-consensual intimate imagery of real, identifiable individuals is handled with similar seriousness. These are not areas where Reddit issues warnings. Sustained, targeted harassment campaigns against specific individuals — particularly when they extend across multiple subreddits or include real-world threats — also result in permanent suspension. The key word is "sustained": a single heated comment generally earns a warning or brief suspension, but a pattern of behavior targeting a person or group escalates rapidly. Vote manipulation at scale, particularly when it involves bots, networks of coordinated accounts, or the sale of high-karma accounts, results in both account termination and potential IP-level blocking. Coordinated inauthentic behavior — operating multiple accounts to simulate grassroots support for a viewpoint — falls under this category as well. Impersonating Reddit employees, moderators, or well-known real individuals to deceive other users can trigger permanent suspension. Repeated ban evasion — returning to a community or the platform after a suspension to continue the same behavior — escalates the severity of each subsequent enforcement action. Reddit has stated that truly egregious violations can result in a user being banned "as a person" rather than just per account, meaning any account they create will be suspended.