r/explainlikeimfive
How much gets removed or deleted, when it is active, and who posts most
In a sample of the most recent 300 posts and 300 comments in r/explainlikeimfive, 45% of posts and 6% of comments were removed by moderators or Reddit. Overall, roughly 26% of what gets posted here is taken down by someone other than the author.
300 posts · 300 comments sampled (22 Aug 2026 → 25 Aug 2026)
Moderation in r/explainlikeimfive
45%of the last 300 posts in r/explainlikeimfive were removed by mods or Reddit
- removed by mods126 (42%)
- removed by Reddit / spam filters10 (3%)
- deleted by author1 (0%)
- still up163 (54%)
Comments: 6% of the last 300 were removed, and 0% deleted by their authors. Comment removals do not say who acted, so they are not split further.
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Common words in r/explainlikeimfive
Top contributors
- u/explainlikeimfive-ModTeam8 (0p / 8c)
- u/kvr1ee7 (7p / 0c)
- u/AutoModerator5 (0p / 5c)
- u/Guilty-Bee-8065 (5p / 0c)
- u/kaleidoscopeiiis5 (1p / 4c)
- u/PrimaryGlittering5615 (5p / 0c)
- u/Alone-Dragonfly23394 (4p / 0c)
- u/dan_marchand4 (0p / 4c)
- u/Any_Bear_31913 (3p / 0c)
- u/atomfullerene3 (0p / 3c)
- u/CadetriDoesGames3 (3p / 0c)
- u/EastHorror38313 (3p / 0c)
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Top posts (sampled)
- 2.3keli5 why is "stiil water" dangerous
- 1.7kELI5: if you abondoned your house and nobody ever entered again, would dust accumulate forever or would the mites eventually run out of food?
- 729ELI5: why do bananas curve but not any other fruit that isn’t at all close to a sphere
- 615ELI5: If a black hole’s singularity is infinitely small and infinitely dense, why can black holes have different sizes?
- 499ELI5: Wouldn't Benford's law being widely known kinda make it useless for detecting fraud? Why wouldn't someone forging numbers just make it follow that law?
- 471ELI5: Why did Italian nobility start speaking Italian?
- 460ELI5: Why do Medicine commercials say “don’t take if you’re allergic?”
- 304ELI5: why does FlixBus stop in the most random locations instead of bus terminals?
- 303ELI5: Why does it feel good to hold/rub your stomach when it hurts?
- 205ELI5 Bugs in video games
Based on the last 300 posts and 300 comments, not the subreddit's full history. Times are UTC.