To tell whether you are shadowbanned on Reddit, look at your profile and your comment the way a stranger does: logged out, in a private window. If your profile will not load for a logged-out reader, the whole account is hidden. If the profile loads but one comment is missing from the thread, that comment was removed by the room, not your account. Reddit keeps showing you your own removed comments, so your own screen is the one view you cannot trust.
Reddit shows your own comments to you even after they have been removed, with no notice in most rooms. From your side the comment looks normal, sits in the thread and may even keep its upvote. Everyone else sees nothing, or a "[removed]" placeholder. That is why so many people only find out when a reply that should have got answers gets none.
So every check below is about seeing what a stranger sees: a private browser window with no Reddit login, or a tool that loads the page logged out.
Open your profile, reddit.com/user/ followed by your name, in a private window. If it loads normally, your account is not shadowbanned sitewide. If it says the page cannot be found or the account is suspended, Reddit itself has hidden or suspended the account, and nothing you post anywhere is reaching people.
A sitewide shadowban comes from Reddit, not from a subreddit's moderators, usually after its spam systems flag the account. The way out is Reddit's own appeal form, not a message to any one subreddit.
If the profile loads, open the thread in the private window and look for your comment. Missing, or showing "[removed]", means it was taken down in that room while your account is fine. Paste the comment's link into a visibility checker and it does the same logged-out look for you.
Three things remove comments without telling you: the room's moderators, its AutoModerator rules (often new accounts, low karma, links or certain words), and Reddit's own spam filter. The filters remove a lot. When we counted the newest posts in 58 subreddits founders sell in, in October 2026, 17 had kept fewer than half of them, including some whose rules allow self-promotion.
For one removed comment, read the room's rules again and look for what matches: a link, a product name, a new-account limit. Then message the moderators politely through the subreddit's "Message the mods" link and ask whether it can be approved or what to change. Many approve a genuine answer when asked.
For a pattern of removals, take the links out, answer the question in plain words first, and build some karma in rooms that welcome new accounts before you post where it matters. For a sitewide shadowban, appeal through Reddit's appeal form and stop posting until it is resolved, since new posts will not be seen either.
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Open your Reddit profile in a private window with no login. If it loads, your account is fine and only that comment was removed by the room. If the profile will not load or says suspended, the whole account is hidden by Reddit.
Because Reddit shows you your own comment even after it has been removed. Check the thread logged out, in a private window: if your comment is missing or says removed, the room took it down, often by an automatic filter for new accounts, links or certain words.
A sitewide shadowban is lifted by Reddit, not by a subreddit, so use Reddit's appeal form and stop posting until it is resolved. A removal in one subreddit is up to its moderators: message them, explain politely, and ask what to change.
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