Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The poster advises users whose Claude accounts were banned to skip account sellers and instead buy a Notion membership on Xianyu to use Opus 5.5 through Notion AI, arguing the official channel is more stable.

A poster says the Claude ban wave is driving full traffic to the topic, with both users who have not yet been banned and those complaining about bans contributing, including critics and fans alike.

A reply post uses an image to show the poster's reaction to having their Claude account banned.

Anthropic says its anti-distillation defenses cut collectable data by 90%–99%, reduced extracted reasoning tokens 10–100x, and led to tens of thousands of related accounts being banned.

A commenter argues Claude bans target abuse like spreading API keys, account-pool rotation and running multiple Claude Code instances, while normal single-account use is unaffected.

A long post breaks down Anthropic's three-layer anti-distillation defense—reasoning summaries, classifier interception and higher retry costs—noting tens of thousands of bans and warning against asking Claude to output full hidden reasoning.

A user shares a template for appealing a Claude account ban: deny any unknown violation, ask Anthropic to recheck the activity logs from the day of the ban, and stress that the account was used in supported regions without restricted IPs.

Anthropic says organized actors used fake accounts and proxy networks to extract Claude's chain of thought for training, so it has restricted new accounts, strengthened classifiers and banned accounts quickly.

Anthropic's new defenses cut distilled data by 90–99% and reasoning-token extraction by 10–100x, banned tens of thousands of linked accounts, and named Zhipu and Moonshot as distilling Claude.

Anthropic says its new defenses cut the Claude reasoning data distillers can harvest by 90–99%, with tens of thousands of accounts banned, often within two hours.

Anthropic says its anti-distillation measures cut the data extractors could obtain by 90–99% and led to tens of thousands of account bans, naming Zhipu and Moonshot and tightening API context edits and billing for blocked requests.

A short image post in which the author says they worry every day about their Claude account being suspended, reflecting anxiety amid a wave of bans.