I had a 17 year old account that got shadow banned so I went ahead and deleted it. All comments I've ever made there were in good faith and respectful and I avoided hot topic discussions (i.e. the entirety of the front page). It's no big deal. I'd say up until 2014 or so the site was pretty decent. The decline in quality in recent years is especially remarkable. Maybe they are trying to do something about this, resulting in people getting caught in the crossfire. I've moved to old-school forums for niche topics of interest. Even niche subreddits have really poor discourse these days. I'm tired of interacting with random user names as well. It's nice to recognize who you are talking to.