Claude Account Bans, Suspensions and Appeals

A user complains GitHub is dead under Microsoft, saying their account was suspended because of a Claude Opus 5.5 PR comment, leaving them unable to file a ticket.

A joke that developer interviews have shifted from algorithms and data structures to proxies, KYC, appealing Claude bans, and haggling with support over Kimi 429s.

The poster doubts claims that Claude accounts are being unbanned, saying several developers still report bans and sudden reinstatement seems unlikely.

A forum digest covers an open-source skill distilled from 80+ banned Claude accounts, plus a near-month-long unban case using a Chinese UI and datacenter IP.

A developer reportedly lost over 80 Claude accounts and turned the lessons into an open-source agent skill called Claude-Guardian, framed as a survival guide for Chinese devs facing repeated bans.

A user says a three-year-old Claude account was banned after asking how something was done, and shares tips from a new account that has stayed stable for a month.

A non-programmer recounts a year of wiring GPT, Gemini, Codex and Claude Code into their workflow, noting their Claude Code account got banned along the way.

A post points to a GitHub project, Claude-Guardian, said to distill lessons from 80 banned Claude accounts into a reusable anti-ban skill.

A reply describes how ordinary Chinese computer science students using Claude are frequently turbo-banned, flagged as potential spies, and hit with IP bans, leaving lasting trauma.

A blogger's Claude account was banned, but since everything runs through API/SDK with sessions stored locally, a new account picks up where it left off; the post debates web UI versus local CLI.

The author says Claude may be both the most loved and most hated model in China: great for coding, yet region limits, payments, phone numbers, risk controls and bans keep users fearing account loss.

Anthropic launched end-customer profiles on its API platform on Oct 20, so a single customer's violation bans only that customer instead of the entire reseller or gateway.