Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

Replying to someone's ban-avoidance tips, the user says Claude has been banning accounts aggressively recently and even their old account was lost.

The poster says Claude is genuinely good and they subscribed despite the risk of being banned, joking an apology to Codex, which stayed with them for a long time.

A user shares that they used Claude to copy a template for a task document, but the account was banned after just one day, so now they can only use GPT.

A user says their first Claude account, kept on a Korean node for four months, was still banned, and they have registered a second account to see how long it lasts.

A Hong Kong user was suspended for "suspicious signals" after about half a year on NordVPN, some now route through Singapore nodes with foreign payment methods, and Anthropic says its region check is mandatory and cannot be turned off.

Returning to Claude after more than a year, the author recalls that before May 2025 there were no mass bans of Chinese users, and their roommate won a thesis award with Claude's help.

The post jokes that asking Claude odd questions like how many r's are in strawberry or how to ride a pelican ends the conversation and gets your account banned by Anthropic, while people doing frontier work go unbanned.

A reply in the account-ban discussion says bluntly that Claude seems to enjoy banning accounts.

The user says the Claude ban appeal templates circulating on X are wishful thinking, and that Anthropic will ignore you no matter how many times you get banned.

The author complains that ChatGPT Pro and Plus quotas are shrinking and GPT-6.1 Sol burns through usage fast, so they plan to register another Claude account, with bans as the only concern.

A blogger was suddenly banned while using the Claude app with a "you are Chinese" notice, and the screenshot drew over ten million views and reposts on X in about ten hours.

A reply links to a first-hand write-up on successfully getting a refund after a Claude account was banned.