Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A poster argues that during the National Day Claude Code ban wave, the biggest loss is the days of work that stall, not the monthly fee, and warns against relying on a single model.

A user asks whether using a Claude subscription in Pi would get the account banned, reflecting concerns about third-party clients and ban risk.

A user shares that the safest way to use Claude is buying a Team Plan and having a friend with an overseas company add them as a seat, which has kept their account unbanned for a year.

An image post claims to offer a tutorial on keeping a Claude account from being banned, aimed at users worried about suspension.

A user says their Claude account has survived for over three years, crediting a single fixed US IP, but worries a ban would waste the personal context they have fed it.

WorkBuddy's server recognizes the built-in system prompts of Codex and Claude Code and refuses the request, and the author says rewriting them to bypass the block risks account bans, so magpie and the plugin won't do it.

The author argues that widely shared Claude ban-prevention guides lack evidence, since an account not being banned yet doesn't prove the method works, comparing them to Warhammer machine-spirit rituals.

A user shares a tip for limiting losses: subscribing to Claude via the App Store meant they could still get a refund after their account was banned.

A user says Claude knows they are Chinese and in China and even gives China-specific advice, yet of two accounts on the same device, network and IP, one works and one was banned, calling the bans arbitrary.

A user says they were banned by Anthropic for using KIT instead of the official harness, and that the company never told them the reason; they are holding an AMA.

A user says another Claude Pro account was banned, is covering with 10 free accounts, and has opened a new Pro account in a different browser environment to keep going.

An image post in which the author jokes that someone's Claude account got banned.