How do you check whether you are shadowbanned, suspended, or limited?

There are several methods for checking whether your Reddit account is shadowbanned, suspended, or subject to platform-level restrictions, and the clearest official method is to visit reddit.com/appeals while logged in. If that page offers you the option to submit an appeal, your account has either been shadowbanned or suspended — a completely healthy account will not have the appeal option available. The appeals page is the authoritative check provided by Reddit itself. For a more direct check on shadowbanning specifically, you can open an incognito or private browsing window (which simulates a logged-out user) and navigate to your profile at reddit.com/u/yourusername. If the page returns a message such as "Sorry, nobody on Reddit goes by that name," "User not found," or "This page doesn't exist," your account is likely shadowbanned or suspended. If your profile loads normally in incognito mode, your account is visible to the public. You can also check subreddits r/ShadowBan and r/ShadowBanned, which have bots that can test whether your recent posts are visible to logged-out users. A shadowbanned account behaves normally from the user's own perspective — posts appear to go through, comments appear to be posted — but none of this content is actually visible to anyone else. Self-diagnosis clues include noticing that your posts never appear in the "New" queue of a subreddit after a few minutes, that your comments consistently show only 1 karma point (indicating they were never seen by others), and that no one ever replies to or acknowledges your contributions. Account suspensions are communicated directly to the user via a banner message that appears when they log in.