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Same happened to me, an 11 year user. I wasn't even evading a ban and I got permabanned:
After reviewing,...we found that you broke Rule 1 because you encouraged or glorified violence or physical harm. Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for encouraging violence against people or animals. We don’t tolerate any behavior that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual, groups of people, places, or animals. Any communities or people that encourage or incite violence towards an individual, group, animals, or place will be banned.
They then told me the content they banned me for was "scrubbed" and then they provided a link to said content which was, or course, blank. So, I couldn't even see what they banned me for. I asked them to provide the text I got banned for but they only gave a canned response. I then appealed. Practically instant denial. Fuck them. The entire ten+ years I was on reddit I saw incel, gamergate, MAGA chuds posting comments way more violent than anything I ever posted. They are still there, doing the same. I wish I could spend a few minutes in the presence of both the mod and the admin that silenced me like that.
There are ways around a ban, but it really isn't worth the trouble and you can still get banned even after that if you are not always careful. Do a web search..."they" practically walk you through the application you will need to get and how to set up everything so their fascist fingerprint algos can't connect you back to the banned accounts. Just making sure your browser, computer, and external, visible IP is different is nowhere near enough to avoid a (re)ban.
As someone else mentioned, I can still log in, read my old posts, browse, sub and unsub, but can't ever comment, message, or report anything. Strangely enough (and I think this is a mistake on their part) I can still up and down vote posts.
The only thing I really miss (and I despise Reddit because of it) is that I cannot post to ask questions or for help in my local city/state subreddits.
Before you delete your account. Delete every activity on that account -posts, comments, chats, etc- because that data still remains with reddit, they do not delete it, and they could sell it (for a fee) and use it to train their AI models