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it's been a hot minute since ive been on reddit, but iirc shadowbanned means "it appears I can interact, but in fact my posts and comments are silently being hidden from other users"
it looks like you're just straight up being banned.
Yes, it was a mix, It still said banned for me. I got banned and shadow banned. A shadow ban just hides all your posts and comments from everybody but you. So, basically means the same as banned to me.
There was supposed to be a distinction, but it doesn't look like Reddit is handling it very well anymore.
A ban or "permanent suspension" (an odd name) is for ordinary bad behavior. You're meant to know you are banned, why you are banned, and how to appeal if you think you didn't break the rules.
A shadowban is for spam or repeated ban evasion where an intentionally abusive account operator expects to get banned and will waste resources and make fewer successful posts if they can't tell they're banned.
Another shady thing Reddit does, if you say certain words or a sentence a certain way. It removes the comment. You still see your comment but it has actually been removed from the post.
This was meant to be the same kind of distinction. Ordinary abuse leaves a "removed" placeholder and spam vanishes.
It just vanishes when I was testing it. You can go to incognito mode and the comments are gone.