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Is being pushed below Show more replies a shadowban?
It is a visibility outcome, but ranking is not a binary ban — and from outside X it usually cannot be measured reliably.
Reply order is personalised and changes with viewer, time and engagement. Without an internal ranking score, an external checker cannot tell a deliberate deboost from normal sorting. X Shadow Ban only runs this check when a provider explicitly exposes the capability; otherwise it is marked untestable and excluded from the score.
What you can verify manually is simpler: ask someone who does not follow you to open the thread and look for your reply, then expand Show more replies. That is an observation, not a ranking measurement.
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These answers describe public observations, not X enforcement decisions. X does not publish an official shadowban status.