r/rust
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/rust, 34% of posts and 2% of comments were removed by moderators or Reddit, and about 1% were deleted by their authors. Overall, roughly 18% of what gets posted here is taken down by someone other than the author.
300 posts · 300 comments sampled (20 Aug 2026 → 26 Aug 2026)
Moderation in r/rust
- removed by mods81 (27%)
- removed by Reddit / spam filters22 (7%)
- deleted by author3 (1%)
- still up194 (65%)
Comments: 2% of the last 300 were removed, and 1% deleted by their authors. Comment removals do not say who acted, so they are not split further.
When r/rust is active (UTC)
Common words in r/rust
Top contributors
- u/diplofocus_8 (0p / 8c)
- u/aimlessgenius7 (1p / 6c)
- u/guineawheek6 (1p / 5c)
- u/KyKyPy36 (6p / 0c)
- u/maximecb6 (1p / 5c)
- u/Shnatsel6 (1p / 5c)
- u/Full-Spectral5 (0p / 5c)
- u/irAbs1745 (1p / 4c)
- u/LetsGoPepele5 (1p / 4c)
- u/afdbcreid4 (0p / 4c)
- u/Aggressive-Meet-82114 (1p / 3c)
- u/Bl4ckBe4rIt4 (4p / 0c)
Curious what someone in r/rust deleted?
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Top posts (sampled)
- 704Sometimes when I'm stuck, I need to distract myself - so I made this for my altar to placate the borrow checker
- 670Never (!) just got stabilized on nightly
- 510Rust 1.98.0 is out
- 423Enabling the next-generation trait solver on nightly
- 392Rust 1.98 got a P-critical miscompilation.
- 326A 2026 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries
- 325ssh late.sh - the Clubhouse now has live streaming, synthwave radio, NetHack, DCSS, Brogue, and a whole BBS door games wing :)
- 285arrayref v0.3.10 compromised
- 266Rust Supply Chain Attack Linked to North Korean Hackers
- 245Freya 0.4 (GUI Library)
Based on the last 300 posts and 300 comments, not the subreddit's full history. Times are UTC.