如果您还没有经历过在线影子禁令的危险，请认为自己很幸运。shadowban 的创建是为了打击逃避传统禁令系统的容易程度，传统禁令系统围绕用户帐户或 IP 地址等内容展开。
当您被Reddit等在线社区屏蔽时，您通常不知道 - 这就是重点。被屏蔽的用户可以使用网站或服务(website or service)，就好像没有任何变化一样，但他们提交的所有内容都将变为无效。如果您尝试发表帖子或评论(post or comment)，它看起来好像已提交，但没有其他人看到它。
许多社交媒体网站都使用影子禁令来应对滥用行为，但没有一个比Reddit更受认可。Reddit的用户管理社区使其成为狂野西部(Wild West)，尽管 subreddit 管理员无法像Reddit的官方人员那样执行完全的影子禁令，但仍可以利用审核机器人来实现几乎相同的效果。
在Reddit上被屏蔽时，您的所有帖子在您自己的帐户上查看时都显示为正常，但在其他人查看时显示为“[删除]”（自动删除后）。/u/AutoModerator会自动删除它们。
在本文中，让我们研究三种不同的方法来判断您是否已被 subreddit 屏蔽。
Reddit Shadowban 测试工具(Reddit Shadowban Test Tool)(Reddit Shadowban Test Tool)
Reddit Shadowban 测试工具(Reddit Shadowban Test Tool)是一个第三方Web 应用程序(web application)，它利用 Reddit 的API来测试 shadowbans。
我们发现Reddit Shadowban Test Tool是最准确和最值得信赖的服务，因为与Reddit Showban Tester等替代品不同，它是开源的并托管在 GitHub 上(hosted on GitHub)。
您所要做的就是输入Reddit 用户名(Reddit username)，然后网站会检查该用户是否在Reddit上被屏蔽。如果响应说用户“看起来很正常”，则表明没有影子禁令。其他任何东西都应该反映某种类型的影子禁令。
/r/ShadowBan
/r/ShadowBan 是一个 subreddit，用户可以在其中发布文本帖子并从 subreddit 的机器人(text post)/u/MarkdownShadowBot收到近乎即时的回复，并详细说明他们是否被影子禁止。
您可能会发现此解决方案比其他解决方案更能说明问题且更易于理解，因为 /u/MarkdownShadowBot 甚至会让您知道您的哪些评论已被垃圾邮件过滤或手动删除，否则您可能会确信您已被屏蔽。
/u/MarkdownShadowBot不会立即回复，但机器人应该会在几分钟内回复您。
隐身模式(Incognito Mode)
有时，要完成工作，您必须自己动手。幸运的是，Chrome 的隐身模式(Incognito Mode)是一种快速简便的解决方案，用于检查您的 Reddit 帖子，看看它们是否在您不知情的情况下被自动删除。
您所要做的就是发帖，复制URL，然后打开一个新的隐身标签并粘贴(incognito tab and paste)URL以查看它。如果你看到你的帖子，你就不会被 subreddit 屏蔽。如果你看到“[removed]”，这并不一定意味着你在Reddit 上被屏蔽了——但(Reddit—but)你可能会。
假设您的帖子包含链接，它可能已被垃圾邮件过滤器删除。如果没有，你可以放心地假设你被影子禁止了。
检查您是否在Reddit上被屏蔽而不被过滤的最简单的方法是创建一个原始帖子，而不添加任何链接，严格遵循 subreddit 的规则。如果它立即被删除，您将被屏蔽。
这三种方法应该可以帮助您得出结论，以确定您是否在任何特定的 subreddit 中被屏蔽。Reddit shadowbans 很棘手，有时会经历迭代，因此我们最好的建议是使用本文中列出的每种方法交叉验证您的禁令（或缺少禁令）。
3 Ways To Find Out If You’re Shadowbanned On Reddit
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When you’re shadowbanned from an online community like Reddit, you often don’t know it – and that’s the point. A shadowbanned user can use a website or service as if nothing has changed, but all of their submitted content goes into the void. If you try to make a post or comment, it appears as if it has been submitted, but no one else sees it.
Many social media sites use shadowbans to counter abuse, but none may be more recognized than Reddit. Reddit’s user-managed communities allow it to be the Wild West, and although subreddit administrators can’t execute a full shadowban in the way that Reddit’s official staff can, moderation bots can still be leveraged to achieve nearly the same effect.
When shadowbanned on Reddit, all of your posts appear as normal when viewed on your own account, but show as “[removed]” (after automated deletion) when viewed by everyone else. /u/AutoModerator automatically deletes them.
In this article, let’s look into three different ways in which you can tell if you’ve been shadowbanned from a subreddit.
Reddit Shadowban Test Tool is a third-party web application that utilizes Reddit’s API to test for shadowbans.
We find that Reddit Shadowban Test Tool is the most accurate and trustworthy service because, unlike alternatives such as Reddit Showban Tester, it’s open source and hosted on GitHub.
All you have to do is type in a Reddit username and the site checks to see if the user is shadowbanned on Reddit. If the response says that the user “looks normal,” that indicates that there is no shadowban in place. Anything else should reflect some type of shadowban.
/r/ShadowBan is a subreddit where users can make a text post and receive a near-instant reply from the subreddit’s bot, /u/MarkdownShadowBot, with details on if they are or aren’t shadowbanned.
You may find this solution more telling and easy to understand than alternatives, because /u/MarkdownShadowBot will even let you know which of your comments have been spam-filtered or manually deleted, which may otherwise have you convinced that you’re shadowbanned.
Replies from /u/MarkdownShadowBot won’t come instantly, but the bot should get back to you within a few minutes.
Incognito Mode
Sometimes, to get the job done, you’ve just got to do it yourself. Luckily, Chrome’s Incognito Mode is a quick and easy solution for checking your Reddit posts to see if they’re being automatically deleted without you knowing.
All you have to do is make a post, copy the URL, then open a new incognito tab and paste the URL to view it. If you see your post, you aren’t shadowbanned from the subreddit. If you see “[removed]”, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re shadowbanned on Reddit—but you could be.
Assuming your post contained links, it may have been deleted based on a spam filter. If it didn’t, you can safely assume you’re shadowbanned.
The most foolproof way to check that you’re shadowbanned on Reddit and not being filtered is by creating an original post, without adding any links to it, that carefully follows the rules of the subreddit. If it’s immediately deleted, you’re shadowbanned.
These three methods should help you draw a conclusion on if you’re shadowbanned in any particular subreddit. Reddit shadowbans are tricky and sometimes go through iterations, so our best advice is to cross-verify your ban (or lack thereof) using each of ways outlined in this article.
