r/machinelearning
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/machinelearning, 55% of posts and 22% of comments were removed by moderators or Reddit, and about 2% were deleted by their authors. Overall, roughly 38% of what gets posted here is taken down by someone other than the author.
300 posts · 300 comments sampled (11 Aug 2026 → 26 Aug 2026)
Moderation in r/machinelearning
- removed by mods50 (17%)
- removed by Reddit / spam filters114 (38%)
- deleted by author9 (3%)
- still up127 (42%)
Comments: 22% 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.
When r/machinelearning is active (UTC)
Common words in r/machinelearning
Top contributors
- u/Fragrant_Fan_675113 (1p / 12c)
- u/AutoModerator9 (0p / 9c)
- u/zemondza9 (9p / 0c)
- u/mhb_117 (1p / 6c)
- u/ProfessionalNews44347 (0p / 7c)
- u/ThatFireGuy07 (0p / 7c)
- u/camracks6 (0p / 6c)
- u/eccLykta6 (6p / 0c)
- u/ITheClixs6 (1p / 5c)
- u/RUComInc6 (0p / 6c)
- u/PresentSituation87365 (5p / 0c)
- u/Weird-Asparagus41365 (5p / 0c)
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Top posts (sampled)
- 361City2Graph: A Python library for Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks and spatial analysis in urban systems [R]
- 290I developed my own quantized LLM from scratch, trained on 30B tokens, deploys in 60 MB [R]
- 208SSOG-Attention: Sum Of Separable Gaussians as a sub-quadratic and scalable alternative to SDPA. [R]
- 165I compiled Doom's renderer into a 21B-parameter transformer -- no training anywhere [P]
- 124Trained an diffusion model that runs on 264KB of RAM [P]
- 120Would you choose a PhD advisor who gives you complete freedom but almost no guidance? [D]
- 95Discussion thread for EMNLP 2026 Notifications/Results [D]
- 73I built an "honest" CS conference ranking: sorted by how good the trip is, not the CORE ranking [P]
- 66Bart- A vintage llm [R]
- 57[R] SineKAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks Using Sinusoidal Activation Functions
Based on the last 300 posts and 300 comments, not the subreddit's full history. Times are UTC.