Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The author predicts the next traffic formula: show months of Claude Pro subscription and share how you avoided getting banned.

The author jokes that keeping a Claude account alive is harder than getting into top universities, and that knowing how to avoid bans could be a lucrative business.

The author clarifies that a Chinese option in Claude's menu does not mean direct access from mainland China, notes Hong Kong and Macau are still unsupported, and cites reports of a Hong Kong user banned while using a VPN.

The poster says a Claude account paying $200 a month was suddenly banned over a 'suspicious' email with chat history lost, and notes many Chinese-language users were banned too.

A user asks whether the reports are true and what banned accounts actually did with Claude, doubting that network environment alone could trigger a ban.

The author says a friend's team uses overseas machines with remote access and no one has been banned, recommending vibe42.ai for not storing code or login state.

In a reply, a user says they always prompt in plain Chinese and have even scolded Claude for being stubborn, yet their account was never banned.

The poster says they often ask Claude Code directly why accounts get banned and remain unbanned, and had Opus 5.5 write up ban-avoidance tips into a Feishu doc.

The poster calculates that Claude Pro's annual plan works out to $17/month, saving $36 a year, and official signup is cheaper than third-party services and less likely to get banned.

A reply joking that the trend will soon produce a Plain Claude Launcher, followed by another round of bans on Chinese accounts.

The poster shares anti-ban experience: a clean residential static IP plus infrequent use kept a free account alive for 12 days, while warning that a clean IP still doesn't guarantee survival.

Unable to pass ID verification for a new account, the author falls back on an old Claude account, having heard older accounts carry higher trust and avoid bans.