r/javascript
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/javascript, 60% of posts and 3% of comments were removed by moderators or Reddit, and about 2% were deleted by their authors. Overall, roughly 32% of what gets posted here is taken down by someone other than the author.
300 posts · 300 comments sampled (4 Aug 2026 → 26 Aug 2026)
Moderation in r/javascript
60%of the last 300 posts in r/javascript were removed by mods or Reddit
- removed by mods156 (52%)
- removed by Reddit / spam filters25 (8%)
- deleted by author14 (5%)
- still up105 (35%)
Comments: 3% of the last 300 were removed. Comment removals do not say who acted, so they are not split further.
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Common words in r/javascript
Top contributors
- u/AutoModerator34 (3p / 31c)
- u/_tshepo30 (2p / 28c)
- u/Normal_Act858622 (3p / 19c)
- u/Right-Principle-487712 (2p / 10c)
- u/inc_2311 (1p / 10c)
- u/RobertKerans10 (0p / 10c)
- u/philnash8 (1p / 7c)
- u/Mantas_rst7 (6p / 1c)
- u/skamansam7 (2p / 5c)
- u/Mammoth-Buy26415 (5p / 0c)
- u/Suitable_Language_375 (1p / 4c)
- u/effectivescarequotes4 (0p / 4c)
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Top posts (sampled)
- 74How an Underrated Refactor Saved 90% Memory Usage
- 60Learning music theory through JavaScript, with runnable Web Audio examples
- 58[AskJS] Our app didn't leak memory,it leaked memory four hundred modals later
- 40Signals and Effects Using Vanilla JavaScript & Web APIs
- 22DriftJS - Exploring a Register-Based Bytecode VM for UI Frameworks
- 17I'm an Angular dev and I spent some weeks building a 3D map of the universe in the browser using three.js
- 17Your Modules Are Lying to You
- 16I made a Windows 98 styled portfolio website with an applet system, and many nostalgic things to discover
- 15Made a small library called strokes.js.
- 12The Structured Clone Algorithm: What JavaScript Can and Cannot Move Between Boundaries
Based on the last 300 posts and 300 comments, not the subreddit's full history. Times are UTC.