Facebook bot shadowbanned my garage sale post for 6 hours

I listed a $40 bike frame on the local buy and sell page, it vanished instantly with no notice. After checking my account settings I found the 'reduced distribution' flag, so I reworded 'garage sale' to 'yard sale' and reposted. It went live in 10 minutes, has anyone else had bots trip on specific words like that?

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burns.ruby11d ago

Ugh, that is so frustrating! I swear the bots just pick random words to hate on. Glad the reword trick worked though, good to know for next time.