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Small analyze on Deleted Top Commentors on Reddit (infosec.pub)
submitted 16 hours ago by pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip to c/reddit@lemmy.world
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Sometimes I find old Reddit posts on search engines, and when I look at them the top commenter's account is deleted. This has happened many times, and I was curious about the general statistics of this.

I made a small analysis of Reddit.

I searched some random words with top posts: "minecraft, people, help, science, google, amazon, funny, colorful."

I didn't just choose the top one; I chose 10 old posts and summed up the total users in comments (top posts hierarchically).

data

Results;

total 1,947 users, 451 deleted, 23.1%

btw this is for users who deleted their accounts; maybe there are many more abandoned

this is just a small research I did; the real stats may be higher or lower - I don't know

So at least in my research, 23% of top commentator Reddit users chose to delete their accounts; some of them also deleted their comments, and some obfuscated their comments (to poison LLMs)

But 23% of top commentors is a really big number. These guys made Reddit the Reddit, but they chose to leave

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[–] ALF839@piefed.social 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Last year Reddit became super aggressive with bans. My first ever ban was for talking about how to kill fish humanely after catching them. I was banned for 3 days for inciting violence and my appeal was ignored.

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

how to kill fish humanely after catching them

looks like reddit using LLMs to ban people I guess

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 4 points 11 hours ago

They may not have chosen to leave, over the years I've occasionally encountered people who had a strategy of deleting their account and starting a new one every once in a while to get rid of old baggage and trackability. There's no way to determine the percentage doing that without internal Reddit data, I assume.

[–] Zorro@mander.xyz 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm one of those people! A victim of the zionist trolls that prowl there.

I was in the 1% top commenters on r/palestine, and out of the blue I am informed I had a lifetime ban for an old comment that I"m still not sure I made...they wouldn't respond to my messages or even allow me to see the comment, so I eventually gave up, deleted my account, and here I am, lol! (Although I'm mostly on mastodon 🙂).

Edit: I don't think my example really accounts for the lost accounts - just a guess, but I think you'll find that a lot of active redditors left reddit, (about 3-4 years back...maybe more, maybe less....there's probably a lot of them on here 🤔), in protest about their 'updating' of the format, with much more 'in your face' advertising, in an attempt to convert it into a social media platform.

[–] artwork@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I am sorry...
To support the case, I moved when got shadow-banned and never received any response:
- https://lemmy.world/post/41927576/21676673

Yet, Lemmy is sure a place, too... where you may get inhumanly banned just like a biomass, too... For example, relatively recently, I was banned on some Community for literally odd reason, and never got any response from their moderators in 2 private messages I sent regarding it:
- https://lemmy.world/modlog...

Image previewsThe ban record (I did absolutely nothing suspicious, I believe, and the account is months old):

The private messages preview:

[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

When you delete your reddit account I thought the posts and comments stayed. Are they removed?

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

they stay

[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That what I thought. Something I recently found out that hidden account posts and comments are not actually hidden. All you have to do is in the account pull up search type and empty space and click search and every post or comment is revealed.

Reddit is shady AF now. Glad I stopped using it.

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

I hate commerical social media

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Even on the lower end, 17,5% is still a lot. And I can't help but wonder how many people that never comment but are always there decided to drop as well.

If anything, considering Reddit seemingly at damage control mode and their opaque numbers, I wouldn't doubt they lost far more people than they'd be willing to show.

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

And I can’t help but wonder how many people that never comment but are always there decided to drop as well.

sorry, thats not something that I can access :D

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 7 hours ago

I was just conjecturing. e.e"