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

  • Auster@thebrainbin.org
    4·
    3 days ago

    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.zipOPEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      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