His ban reasons have become so arbitrary and inconsistently applied that even if you're a long-term user you're better off having a sock for posting more controversial opinions.Will? They have. A lot of new accounts I have seen seem to be socks of users that may or may not have been banned, but want to sock anyway. Self-created problems...was a time too when he didn't really care about socking and people openly did it all the time. Now all the sudden it is a huge problem.
I got banned for "socking" even though I never had another account before. Back talking to people on the forum in DMs and they're admitting to using socks or sleeper accounts for about 8 months now.
Congratulations Josh, ten years in and you've managed to make Reddit "throwaway" accounts a necessity on your site.