Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A reply warns that carrying out a distillation attack will get the person's Claude account banned for good.

With many users in China reporting Claude account bans recently, a user recommends an unconventional method from another account as an effective fix.

A V2EX account-ban post led users to claim Claude outputs sensitive separatist text as a test, and that asking it to delete such content can flag Chinese users for review and a ban.

The author compares Claude ban avoidance to ad-network EMU fraud, arguing it is rule-breaking by nature, and describes buying real foreign identities or mass-creating accounts as the two approaches.

A meme image jokes about users tiptoeing around Claude for fear of having their account banned.

With Claude bans still ongoing, users say some Opus 5.5 High-effort requests are quietly routed to a new checkpoint, and share a two-question self-test while noting some hopeful testers got banned first.

The author says their Claude account was banned after two days and shares a skill that helps Codex produce good-looking animations.

Some users report Claude accounts suddenly restored, even without appeals, and the author suggests retrying old accounts and resubmitting failed appeals while collecting recovery reports.

The author asks who was banned by Claude today, suggests DeepSeek or GPT instead, and lists ways to keep using Claude: hosting services, AWS Kiro, Cursor, account sellers and relay services.

A user compares Claude unfavorably with GPT, saying GPT works from any node as long as you pay, while Claude bans accounts no matter how expensive the plan.

The author says they chat with Claude entirely in Chinese without masking IP or timezone, and Claude even mentioned their Hangzhou server, yet the account remains active; they suspect bans hinge on payment method and KYC rather than location exposure.

The author asks whether connecting REA to Claude Code and having it analyze Claude Code's ban paths could end up getting their own account banned, and seeks answers from people who have tried it.