No upfront fees. You pay only after removal. How it works
Users
A suspended or banned account has a reason on record. A good appeal answers that reason: short, specific and easy to approve.
No upfront fees. You pay only after removal.
This is for you if
Reddit suspended your account and the notice is unclear.
A moderator banned you from a community you rely on.
A shadowban is hiding your posts.
You have already appealed once and were declined.
How Reddit handles this
When Reddit removes content or sanctions an account, the account is notified of the reason and given instructions for how to appeal. Appeals are evaluated by Reddit's administrators and are either granted or denied. In the second half of 2024, admins received 293,331 appeals of content-level sanctions and 298,388 appeals of account-level sanctions. The average success rate across both was around 18.6%.
Most appeals fail, and that matters for how you write yours. Appeals that are angry, vague or long tend to be denied. The ones that have a chance are short, specific, answer the exact reason given, and show why the sanction should be reversed. You usually get one real attempt, so it should be the best one.
A ban from a single community is decided by that community's moderators, usually through modmail, and only applies to that community. It has nothing to do with the administrators' appeal process. Sending the wrong appeal to the wrong place is one of the most common reasons nothing happens.
How we handle it
Temporary suspension, permanent suspension, shadowban or community ban. The route differs for each.
We work out which rule was cited and whether the action fits the facts.
Direct, respectful, factual, and aimed at the exact reason given.
Sitewide suspensions go through Reddit's appeal form. Community bans go to moderators by modmail. If it is declined, we advise whether a further appeal has any chance.
Each action on your case is recorded with its date. You can read the log at any time in your client portal, and reply to us there.
The rulebook
An appeal works when it answers the exact rule behind the ban. These are the rules bans most often rest on.
Most bans come from a community's own rules or from sitewide conduct rules. A good appeal names the rule that was applied and explains, specifically, why the ban should be lifted.
Some suspensions are for deceptive accounts or ban evasion. If that is the allegation, the appeal has to answer it honestly: a denial that the evidence contradicts makes things worse.
Paraphrased from the official Reddit Rules. Moderators also enforce each community's own rules, under Reddit's Moderator Code of Conduct.
By the numbers
Reddit publishes how many appeals it receives and how many succeed. Both numbers shape how an appeal is written.
18.6%
average success rate of appeals to Reddit admins
Admins decided 293,331 appeals of content-level sanctions and 298,388 appeals of account-level sanctions, about 10.5% and 3.2% of all sanctions in each category.
Source: Reddit Transparency Report · July to December 2024
Legal background
Regulation · European Union · 2022
Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, Arts. 16, 17, 20 and 21
Hosting services must provide an easy way to notify them of illegal content (Article 16) and must give affected users a statement of reasons when they restrict content or accounts (Article 17). Online platforms must run a free internal complaint system (Article 20), and users can take unresolved disputes to a certified out-of-court body (Article 21).
Why it matters here: For users in the EU, a ban or removal comes with a right to reasons, an appeal and independent review. How far this applies to a particular platform depends on the service and its size.
Court case · U.S. Supreme Court · 2024
603 U.S. 707 (2024)
The Court considered Texas and Florida laws restricting how large social media platforms moderate content. It sent the cases back for further analysis, while explaining that when a platform selects, orders and removes content in its feeds, it is engaged in expressive activity protected by the First Amendment.
Why it matters here: Platforms have a protected role in deciding what stays on their sites. That supports why a ban or removal decision is the platform's to make, and why an appeal is a request to that platform, not a legal right in most cases.
Real public cases
A documented public event. It is not one of our clients.
Public case · 2023 · not a client of ours
Public case · 2022 · not a client of ours
The outcome
A successful appeal restores access. Nothing in your history is deleted, and posts from before the ban are still where you left them.
We write down the rule that was applied and how to avoid it, so the same ban does not happen a second time.
Some appeals are declined. You get the reason and the options left, including whether it is worth trying again.
Before you do anything
Appeals are read by volunteers. Anger gets a fast no, calm and specific gets a fair look.
Repeated messages can lead to a mute. One strong appeal is better than five weak ones.
If the record contradicts you, your credibility goes. Say what happened and what has changed.
Returning on a new account while banned can turn a community ban into a sitewide one.
While we work
Sign in with a one-time code sent to your email. Follow the case, reply to us, add links and evidence, and read your invoice there. The invoice is issued only after removal.
What we need
Questions
Sometimes, if the suspension was a mistake or the situation has changed. Many are not reversed. We assess the record first.
No. Using another account to get around a suspension is ban evasion and usually makes things worse, and repeated appeals rarely help. One strong appeal is better than several weak ones.
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