Like being an artist who works for someone else and does not own their own work more like.
Yes I know people put htings into it. But if they expect that a random ban could not happen to them they are idiots.
Yes the current state of things is sad, and the fact that you can not get though to anything except a bot should not be allowed, it's worse when that happens on other platforms that are not just nonsence like reddit though.
Move on, get a new account if you must. You are just a number to them.
(I assume you modded badly like "ALL OF REDDIT" anyway, I'm sure you will say otherwise though. Unpaid mods are unlikely to make the right call in many cases, so people hate you and reddit is just the same to you. karma. (yeah I know you probably do not think of yourself that wasy but you are not accountable to people and neither is reddit to you, this is the problem with the modern net, cannot do it yourseflf as no one will come, cannot do it on other people platforms unless you happen to be making them enough money to care))