Sometimes I find old Reddit posts on search engines, and when I look at them the top commenter’s account is deleted. This has happened many times, and I was curious about the general statistics of this.

I made a small analysis of Reddit.

I searched some random words with top posts: “minecraft, people, help, science, google, amazon, funny, colorful.”

I didn’t just choose the top one; I chose 10 old posts and summed up the total users in comments (top posts hierarchically).

data

Results;

total 1,947 users, 451 deleted, 23.1%

btw this is for users who deleted their accounts; maybe there are many more abandoned

this is just a small research I did; the real stats may be higher or lower - I don’t know

So at least in my research, 23% of top commentator Reddit users chose to delete their accounts; some of them also deleted their comments, and some obfuscated their comments (to poison LLMs)

But 23% of top commentors is a really big number. These guys made Reddit the Reddit, but they chose to leave

  • NewLeafDawn@lemmy.world
    3·
    21 hours ago

    Yup, I was a top commenter on many subs and even moderated a few. It was a daily part of my life. After getting 2 (unfounded) complete bans for 3 days then 7 days inside a two week period, I was out. I deleted a decade and a half of thoughts and opinions and exchanges that meant something to me because FUCK NAZIS.