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by sceptic123 379 days ago
Certainly not what I understand as shadowbanning.

> the practice of blocking or partially blocking a user or the user's content from some areas of an online community in such a way that the ban is not readily apparent to the user

(from Wikipedia)

I'm not saying what they are doing is good, just agreeing that it doesn't seem like shadowbanning, it just looks like downranking.