I’ve had the opposite experience. It all “just worked”. Try running unraid. It makes a lot of it so much easier.

I personally have found search results that would have been useful or able to solve my problem if they hadn’t had this done to them. It has pushed me to search site:reddit.com far less, so I know it works. The fewer people visiting reddit the better.

Now that you’re unbanned, consider using a tool to edit all of your comments to gibberish to remove your value from reddit. I’ve seen it a lot, it’s easy to do, and it works.