r/programming
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/programming, 47% of posts and 3% of comments were removed by moderators or Reddit, and about 2% were deleted by their authors. Overall, roughly 25% of what gets posted here is taken down by someone other than the author.
300 posts · 300 comments sampled (14 Aug 2026 → 26 Aug 2026)
Moderation in r/programming
- removed by mods18 (6%)
- removed by Reddit / spam filters122 (41%)
- deleted by author10 (3%)
- still up150 (50%)
Comments: 3% 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/programming is active (UTC)
Common words in r/programming
Top contributors
- u/AutoModerator8 (0p / 8c)
- u/programming-ModTeam8 (0p / 8c)
- u/loup-vaillant6 (0p / 6c)
- u/BrewedDoritos5 (5p / 0c)
- u/EC363395 (0p / 5c)
- u/Memitim5 (0p / 5c)
- u/pydry5 (0p / 5c)
- u/Remarkable_Block_7105 (0p / 5c)
- u/cdb_114 (3p / 1c)
- u/cekrem4 (4p / 0c)
- u/NegotiationInner73074 (4p / 0c)
- u/nvn9114 (0p / 4c)
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Top posts (sampled)
- 2.2kNothing like a Monday morning GitHub outage
- 547Turns are Better than Radians
- 443Your executable is a SQLite database
- 410Music theory for programmers
- 408The August 17 outage, and the work ahead
- 371Protobuf finally has LSP support. You’re welcome. · Buf
- 357Finding a hidden Mersenne Twister implementation inside a 15 year old game binary
- 230What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
- 215Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full - Fabien Sanglard
- 213A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
Based on the last 300 posts and 300 comments, not the subreddit's full history. Times are UTC.