I recently found myself on the end of reddit's permaban, no new accounts will work, VPNs don't work either. All accounts are banned within 24 hours.
Get yourself a VM setup and the accounts won't be banned though. Easy. All you need is to get Oracle, run the default setup wizard and have an iso file for the operating system.
Hope this helps other comrades still performing praxis there.
Were you using VM combined with VPN before? If not, then no it shouldn't.
Interesting. I wasn't using the VM with a VPN and no ban has been applied to those accounts.