Nah, this was a local sub and I participated regularly. That's why it was so shocking. I had hundreds to thousands of posts over a few years there and there was no indication ever that I was doing anything problematic. It was specifically the posts about local politics (zoning and such) that went against the zeitgest that were shadow deleted.
There were some grassroots efforts around 2015 to make the mod log public and transparent (so it'd say what was removed, by who, and optionally why), but it was unfortunately opt-in and never gained large adoption.