Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

The author says a newly registered Claude account was banned before they had even started using it, with a screenshot showing the ban notice.

The poster says they have subscribed to 20x Claude but one of their accounts was banned.

A user jokes that the ban-prevention advice they were given boils down to "just don't use Claude," complaining that Claude's account bans make for false hope.

A poster warns content creators and indie developers not to reveal to Claude that they must follow mainland China content policy, saying it can trigger manual review and a ban that is nearly impossible to reverse.

A post says Anthropic banned 11.4 million accounts in six months, nearly 8x the prior half-year, and only about 42,000 of those, roughly 1 in 270, got their account back.

An image post offering a guide to reducing the risk of having your Claude account suspended by Anthropic.

After his Claude account was banned, the author traced duplicate Windows environments (dual NVM paths, two Desktop installs) as a possible cause and turned the cleanup process into an open-source Skill.

A user shares a so-called trick for avoiding Claude bans, unsubscribing immediately after subscribing, but admits two new accounts were still banned recently.

A user says both their Claude and Codex accounts are subscriptions and they have not dared to use REA, asking whether anyone has been banned for it.

A question post asks whether asking Claude in Simplified Chinese alone triggers a ban, reflecting widespread worry amid the ban wave.

A user says they click "good" whenever Claude asks how it's doing, to avoid being banned for abusive behavior.

The author shows their last surviving Claude account: banned the day after subscribing to Pro in May, then automatically unbanned, still alive today, with the ban email kept as a keepsake.