Why do you think so?

If you post a hive.blog link, and log out, and it disappears from the New section, it's shadow banned. I think it dates back to when hive forked from steem and Justin Sun persuaded both twitter and reddit to blacklist hive.

Re the payout bot, take a look at your wallet - it'll have a redditposh memo saying "Comment payout for https://hivel.ink/@redditposh/re-xxxxx" and it will be in alphabet order based on the name of the author of the article you shared. (I was puzzled why newer shares were being paid out before older ones, till I noticed it was being paid in alphabet order).