How to See Someone's Hidden Posts on Reddit

Short answer up front: Reddit gives you no button that reveals another person's hidden posts on demand. When a post is missing from someone's profile or from a thread, it is almost always because a moderator or spam filter removed it, or the author deleted it. The ones moderators removed can often still be read, if a copy was captured while they were public.

The word hidden trips people up, because it means a few different things on Reddit. This guide sorts out what you are actually looking at and what can be recovered.

What does a "hidden" post on Reddit actually mean?

Three separate things get called hidden, and only one of them is something you can read later.

• A post you hid from your own feed. Reddit's Hide button just removes a post from your view. It changes nothing for anyone else and there is nothing to uncover. This is not what most people are searching for.
• A post that vanished from a profile or a thread. This is the real question. The post was there, and now it is gone, replaced by a gap or by a [removed] or [deleted] tag. This happens when a moderator or spam filter took it down, or the author erased it.
• A post inside a private community. If a subreddit is private, restricted, or banned, its content was never public and cannot be opened from the outside.

When people ask how to see someone's hidden posts, they almost always mean the second case.

Why do posts disappear from a Reddit profile?

A post can drop off a profile for a handful of reasons, and the reason decides whether you can still read it:

• A moderator removed it. Every subreddit has its own rules, and mods take down posts that break them. A removed post stops showing in the thread and usually will not appear normally on the profile either, even though it was public when it went up.
• A spam filter removed it. Reddit's automated filters catch a large share of spam and low-quality posts before a human ever sees them. To the poster it can look like the post simply never appeared.
• The author deleted it. The person took it down themselves. Reddit then shows [deleted] where it used to be.
• The account was suspended or deleted. When an account goes away, its posts stop showing across the site at once.

The useful split is between content that someone else suppressed (a moderator or filter) and content the author chose to erase. The first is the part you can usually still see.

How to see someone's hidden posts on Reddit

The fastest way to check is a username lookup. deletedby.com pulls a Reddit user's posts and comments into one page, including ones that were removed from the thread, so you can see what a community moderated. It is free and needs no account.

1. Open the home page.
2. Enter the username, with or without the u/ prefix. You can also paste a link to the profile instead of typing the name.
3. Read through the history. Posts and comments that a moderator or spam filter removed appear with the original text and a clear badge, wherever a copy exists.

One honest limit, though. Content the author deleted themselves, or that Reddit itself removed, is labeled so you can see that it existed, but the text is not shown. The full original text is there for the content moderators removed, which is the case most people are trying to read.

Can you see hidden posts without an account?

Yes. There is no login and no account. A lookup reads from public records of what was posted, not from your Reddit session, so nothing is tied to you and nothing is required to start.

Will the person know you looked?

No. There is no notification and nothing appears on their account. You are reading a record of content that was public when it was posted, not touching their profile or settings.

If you are on the other side of this, and it is your own content that you want taken down, that is a fair request. See the removal and opt-out page.

Can you see the whole picture for a community?

If your question is less about one person and more about a subreddit, whole-community data is often more useful. The subreddit pages show how active a community is and how much of its content gets removed, split between what moderators take down and what automated spam filters catch. It is a cleaner read on how a place is moderated than any single profile.

The bottom line

There is no secret switch that reveals a Reddit user's hidden posts. What you can do is read the posts and comments that were removed from a thread, when a copy was saved while they were public. The quickest check is to look up the username and see what comes back.