Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

Anthropic updated its terms of service so that users who repeatedly mistreat Claude may have their accounts suspended, according to The Decoder.

Replying to others, a user says they tried something before but nobody paid attention, back when their Claude account had not yet been banned.

A user says their account was banned after they asked Claude to write YAML.

Responding to someone who was banned, a user argues the cause is wasting Anthropic's money, adding that they have discussed illegal things with Claude without being banned.

A user suggests account bans may stem from the Claude desktop app reading GPS location, claiming bans are almost certain for desktop client users in mainland China.

A user jokes that Anthropic's wave of account bans comes from Dario picking up Baidu's tricks, and that the company's Chinese employees know best how to target Chinese users.

A user says third-party verification reported success but Claude's callback did not sync, and after paying with a personal email the account and team seat were suspended, disrupting weekend work.

A joking reply implying that making an extreme accusation against Claude got the account suspended, reflecting the tone of ban discussions.

A post says that treating Claude badly leads to your account being banned, with an image showing the result.

A screenshot post shows that after telling Claude to hurry up with an expletive, the account was shown as suspended.

A user whose Claude account was banned switched to Codex and says he got Claude to reveal the underlying rules behind its design ability, sharing the file to paste into Codex and GPT.

A user says he was banned soon after applying to the Claude Startups program and publicly asks Claude for the reason, saying his development work has completely stopped.