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You're not shadow banned, just unlikeable I guess

Likely because complaining about paywalls, or about getting downvoted, is fairly uninteresting and does not add to the discussion.

Here [1] is an archive link. I suggest you search there in the future.

downvoted != shadow-banned

I never said those were equivalent.

that depends on how new the account is and how deeply downvoted the comment gets