Diagnosing a shadowban in 4 checks

Diagnosing a shadowban in 4 checks
This week on Reddit marketing: a checklist for telling a shadowban from a low-karma slump.
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[Tool] Open your profile in a logged-out incognito window — r/ShadowBan explains that invisible posts there equal an account-level shadowban.
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[Tactic] Check r/ShadowBan's bot, which crawls your last posts and reports which are filtered vs removed vs live.
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[Rule-change] Removed-by-automod vs shadowban — a r/modhelp post clarifies that per-sub removals are not bans; fix the trigger, don't appeal Reddit.
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[Case] A user walks through their recovery: appeal via r/reddit.com modmail, then a 7-day clean-posting cooldown.
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Editor's pick: the incognito profile check. Thirty seconds, no tools, and it instantly separates a real shadowban from a panic.