Staying Safe & Avoiding Bans

Why Redreach is Safer Than Other Tools

Browser-Based Automation (Not API)

But Rate Limits Still Apply

• Reddit monitors volume (how many DMs per day)

• Reddit monitors speed (how fast you send them)

• Reddit monitors user complaints (people reporting you)

Understanding Reddit's Rules

What Reddit Considers Spam

• ❌ Identical mass messages - Sending the same DM to many users

• ❌ Excessive volume - Sending too many DMs too quickly

• ❌ Unsolicited commercial messages - Pure sales pitches with no value

• ❌ Automated behavior detection - Obvious bot-like patterns

• ❌ User complaints - Multiple users reporting you for spam

What's Allowed

• ✅ Personalized outreach - Unique, relevant messages to interested users

• ✅ Reasonable volume - Staying within safe daily limits

• ✅ Value-first messaging - Helping users, not just selling

• ✅ Natural pacing - Human-like delays and behavior

• ✅ Respect for recipients - Stopping when asked, providing value

Daily Limit Guidelines

Safe Daily Limits by Account Age

New Accounts (< 1 month old, < 500 karma)

• Week 1: Start at 5-10 DMs/day

• Week 2+: Increase to 15 DMs/day if no issues

• Critical: Some new accounts get limited after just 2-3 DMs on the first day

Medium Accounts (1-6 months old, 500-5,000 karma)

• Start at 15-20 DMs/day

• Scale to 30-40 DMs/day after 1 week with no issues

• Accounts with 1+ month and 500+ karma can often handle 60-70 DMs/day safely

Aged Accounts (6+ months old, 5,000+ karma)

• Start at 40 DMs/day for safety

• Scale to 75-100+ DMs/day if no issues

• Well-established accounts (2+ years, 10k+ karma) can push higher

Setting Your Daily Limit

1. Open the Redreach sidebar

2. Go to Settings (gear icon)

3. Find "Daily Limit per Reddit Account"

4. Set based on your account age (see guidelines above)

5. Click Save

How Daily Limits Are Enforced

• Limit is checked server-side (tracked in your Redreach account)

• Works across multiple browser tabs and windows

• Works across multiple devices (if you use the extension on different computers)

• Dashboard shows "Today's DMs: 23 / 50"

• Campaign won't start if you're at the limit

• Campaign stops mid-run if limit is reached

• Limit resets at midnight UTC

• Fresh allowance every 24 hours

Daily limit: 50 DMs
10:00 AM: Run campaign, send 30 DMs (30/50)
2:00 PM: Run another campaign, send 20 DMs (50/50) - LIMIT REACHED
3:00 PM: Try to run campaign - BLOCKED (at daily limit)
Tomorrow 12:00 AM UTC: Limit resets (0/50)

Message Delay Settings

Recommended Delay Settings

• 3 seconds: Absolute minimum (requires Growth/Professional plan)

• 4 seconds: Recommended for most users

• 5+ seconds: Extra safe, best for new accounts

• Humans don't send DMs instantly back-to-back

• Delays prevent Reddit's automation detection

• Gives time for page loading and navigation

• Reduces server load and suspicion

Plan-Based Minimums

• Startup/Pro: 3 seconds minimum

• Growth/Professional: 1 second minimum

• Extension shows upgrade prompt

• Setting is capped at plan minimum

• Can upgrade plan to unlock shorter delays

• Yes and no. We personally at Redreach use it ourselves and haven’t run into any issues yet however we can not guarantee you might run into a rate limit faster 😉

• Risk of automation detection increases

• 3-5 seconds is safer for account health

Setting Your Delay

1. Open Settings in the sidebar

2. Find "Delay Between Messages"

3. Set to 4 seconds (recommended)

4. Click Save

Built-in Anti-Ban Features

1. Message Variation (Spintax)

• Spintax creates unique message variations

• Every DM is slightly different

• Avoids Reddit's identical-message spam detection

{Hey|Hello|Hi}! I {saw|noticed} you're in r/SaaS...

2. Duplicate Prevention

• Tracks who you've already contacted

• Prevents messaging the same user twice

• Configurable per campaign

• Skip if DMed by My Reddit Account: Prevents duplicate contacts from this account

• Skip if DMed in This Project: Prevents duplicates across all campaigns in this project

3. Automatic User Filtering

• ✅ Bot accounts (AutoModerator, etc.)

• ✅ Advertisers and promoted content

• ✅ Moderators (from sidebar lists)

• ✅ Users with DMs disabled

• ✅ Users on your ignore list

• Bots can't report you (they're not real users)

• Moderators are more likely to report spam

• Users with DMs disabled can't receive messages anyway

4. Human-Like Cursor Movement

• Smooth, animated cursor movements

• Easing animations (not robotic jumps)

• Wiggle effects during waiting periods

• Natural clicking behavior

• Makes automation harder to detect visually

• Mimics real human interaction patterns

5. Reddit Rate Limit Detection

• Checks for Reddit's rate limit banners before and after each message

• Immediately stops campaign if rate limit detected

• Shows educational modal explaining what happened

• Campaign stops automatically

• You're shown recovery instructions

• Can't send more DMs for ~2 hours

6. Auto-Ignore Feature

• Automatically adds users to your ignore list if:
• DMs are disabled on their account
• You messaged them but no lead was created (delivery failed)

• Find "Auto-ignore Previously Messaged Users"

• Toggle ON (recommended)

• Won't waste future campaign slots on unreachable users

• Improves delivery rate

• Reduces "bounced" message attempts

The Ignore List

How to Use the Ignore List

1. Go to Settings in the sidebar

2. Scroll to "Ignore List"

3. Enter usernames (one per line or comma-separated)

4. Click Save

• ❌ Will never be contacted by your campaigns

• ❌ Filtered out during user discovery

• ✅ Applies to ALL campaigns automatically

When to Add Users to Ignore List

• Reported you or complained about your message

• Asked not to be contacted again

• Are competitors or irrelevant accounts

• Are known bots not auto-filtered

• You don't want to accidentally re-contact

competitor_company_founder
user_who_complained
irrelevant_bot_account

Auto-Ignore vs. Manual Ignore

• Automatically adds users with failed DM attempts

• Adds users you've messaged before (if enabled)

• Hands-off, automated management

• You explicitly add specific usernames

• Full control over who's blocked

• Useful for competitors, complainers, etc.

What to Do If You Get Rate Limited

Reddit's Warning Message

Immediate Actions

1. Stop all campaigns immediately (Redreach does this automatically)

2. Wait at least 4-6 hours before sending ANY more DMs

3. Better: Wait 24 hours to fully cool down your account

4. Don't attempt to circumvent the limit (makes it worse)

Recovery Steps

1. Cut your daily limit in half
• If you were at 30/day → drop to 15/day
• If you were at 60/day → drop to 30/day

2. Increase message delay to 5-7 seconds

3. Spread sends throughout the day
• Instead of 30 DMs in one run, do 3 runs of 10 DMs (morning/afternoon/evening)

4. Wait 3-7 days at the lower limit before attempting to scale back up

5. Use Reddit normally during recovery
• Comment on posts
• Upvote content
• Show you're a real user, not a bot

Prevention

• Start well below safe limits for your account age

• Scale gradually (10% increase per week max)

• Use spintax to vary messages

• Build karma and account history before automating

Account Safety Best Practices

Build Account History First

• Post 5-10 comments in target subreddits

• Build 100-500 karma minimum

• Use the account normally for 1-2 weeks

Mix DMs with Normal Activity

• Comment on posts occasionally

• Upvote content

• Participate genuinely in communities

Use a Dedicated Outreach Account

• If banned, you lose your entire Reddit presence

• Create a separate business account instead

• Keeps personal and business activity separate

Scaling Your Outreach: The Multi-Account Strategy

Why You Need Multiple Accounts to Scale

• ✅ Spreads risk - If one account gets rate limited, others keep running

• ✅ Higher total volume - 3 accounts × 60 DMs/day = 180 DMs/day total

• ✅ Safer per account - 60 DMs from one account vs. 180 DMs = way less suspicious

• ✅ Account diversification - Different account ages, karma levels, activity patterns

How to Scale with Multiple Accounts

• Use different email addresses

• Build karma on each (100-500 minimum)

• Age them for 1-4 weeks before automating

• Participate genuinely in target subreddits

• Account 1: 30 DMs/day

• Account 2: 40 DMs/day

• Account 3: 50 DMs/day

• Total: 120 DMs/day safely

• Extension auto-detects which Reddit account you're logged into

• Tracks daily limits separately per account

• Log out of Account 1 → Log into Account 2 → Continue campaigns

• 9am: Run campaigns on Account 1 (30 DMs)

• 2pm: Switch to Account 2, run campaigns (40 DMs)

• 7pm: Switch to Account 3, run campaigns (50 DMs)

Managing Multiple Accounts in Redreach

• Detects which Reddit account you're logged into

• Tracks daily limits per account separately

• Shows "Sent by: [reddit_username]" in your CRM

• Prevents duplicate contacts across accounts (if enabled in settings)

1. Log out of current Reddit account in your browser

2. Log into different Reddit account

3. Redreach detects the new account automatically

4. Run campaigns normally - limits are tracked per account

Account 1: "BusinessName_Outreach1" (1 month old, 600 karma)
Daily limit: 40 DMs/day
Use for: r/SaaS, r/startups

Account 2: "BusinessName_Outreach2" (3 months old, 2k karma)
Daily limit: 60 DMs/day
Use for: r/Entrepreneur, r/smallbusiness

Account 3: "BusinessName_Outreach3" (6 months old, 5k karma)
Daily limit: 80 DMs/day
Use for: High-volume subreddit campaigns

Total capacity: 180 DMs/day safely

When to Add More Accounts

• You're testing Redreach for the first time

• You only need 15-50 DMs/day

• You want to perfect your messaging first

• You've successfully run campaigns for 2+ weeks

• You need 100+ DMs/day

• Your first account is stable (no rate limits)

• You need 300+ DMs/day

• You're running campaigns in multiple niches/subreddits

• You have proven message templates with good response rates

Monitor Account Health

• Getting rate limited frequently

• Low/negative response rates

• Karma decreasing

• Shadowban (posts not visible to others - check r/ShadowBan)

Subscription Plan Limits

Plan Tiers

• Minimum delay: 3 seconds

• Daily limit: Unlimited (user-configurable)

• Minimum delay: 1 second

• Daily limit: Unlimited (user-configurable)

• Lower minimum delays = faster campaigns (but not necessarily safer)

• Higher plan = more features and support

Upgrade to Remove Restrictions

• Click "Upgrade Plan"

• Choose higher tier

• Unlock lower delay minimums

Advanced Safety Strategies

Progressive Scaling (4-Week Plan)

• Week 1: 10-15 DMs/day, 5-second delay

• Week 2: 20-25 DMs/day, 4-second delay

• Week 3: 35-40 DMs/day, 4-second delay

• Week 4+: 50+ DMs/day, 3-4 second delay

Monitor Response Quality

Use Message Variations

Troubleshooting Safety Issues

"Campaign stopped: Rate limited"

"User reported my message as spam"

"Account shadowbanned"

"Low response rate (<5%)"

Safety Checklist

• ✅ Daily limit appropriate for account age (conservative)

• ✅ Message delay set to 3-5 seconds

• ✅ Spintax used in message template (3-5 variations minimum)

• ✅ Duplicate prevention enabled (both settings)

• ✅ Auto-ignore enabled

• ✅ Message is helpful and relevant (not pure sales pitch)

• ✅ Targeting appropriate subreddits/threads (not spam communities)

• ✅ Account has some karma and history (not brand new)

• ✅ Haven't been rate limited recently (wait 48 hours if you have)

Key Takeaways

1. Redreach is safer than API tools – Browser-based automation mimics human behavior, harder to detect

2. But rate limits still apply – Even with safe automation, you can't spam endlessly

3. Start conservatively – Low daily limits (5-15 for new accounts), high delays

4. Scale gradually – 10-20% increase per week max

5. Use spintax – Never send identical messages

6. Multi-account for scale – To send 100+ DMs/day safely, use 2-3 Reddit accounts

7. Build account history – Comment, post, upvote - be a real Reddit user

8. If rate limited – Wait 24 hours, cut limit in half, resume carefully

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