r/sysadmin
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/sysadmin, 24% of posts and 1% of comments were removed by moderators or Reddit, and about 1% were deleted by their authors. Overall, roughly 13% 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/sysadmin
24%of the last 300 posts in r/sysadmin were removed by mods or Reddit
- removed by mods9 (3%)
- removed by Reddit / spam filters63 (21%)
- deleted by author6 (2%)
- still up222 (74%)
Comments: 1% of the last 300 were removed. Comment removals do not say who acted, so they are not split further.
When r/sysadmin is active (UTC)
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Common words in r/sysadmin
Top contributors
- u/apalrd16 (1p / 15c)
- u/kuldan58538 (0p / 8c)
- u/HaunterNoir7 (7p / 0c)
- u/_Do_The_Needful_6 (0p / 6c)
- u/Particular-Fly-77836 (0p / 6c)
- u/_Diablos_4 (4p / 0c)
- u/segagamer4 (1p / 3c)
- u/st0ut7174 (0p / 4c)
- u/Windows95GOAT4 (0p / 4c)
- u/AgreeableIron8113 (3p / 0c)
- u/atred3 (0p / 3c)
- u/BubblyAdvantage51643 (0p / 3c)
Curious what someone in r/sysadmin deleted?
Look up any Reddit user and see their posts and comments, including ones removed by mods or spam filters. Free, no account.
Top posts (sampled)
- 1.2kVPN Server 250km away wont come back online: pour one out for me
- 693Dell is out of their minds.
- 683LMAOO a .gov (Idaho) subdomain has been compromised for ~2 weeks and noone has noticed
- 508I encountered this in Prod today.
- 447Peak Sysadmin
- 421Microsoft dropped a CVSS 10.0 Entra ID RCE, said it was exploited, then walked that back a day later. No customer patch.
- 420Adobe Licensing Specialist Asking Us to Delete Unlicensed Users
- 160As of today (Aug 24th) Windows NT 4.0 is 30 years old. What are your favourite memories of that OS?
- 155I finally figured out why my spam looks different than it used to, and why it's so hard to stop: "Cold email infrastructure".
- 148does anyone still use thin clients?
Based on the last 300 posts and 300 comments, not the subreddit's full history. Times are UTC.