Glossary

Reddit glossary: terms explained with data

Short answers to the words people search for on Reddit. Each page has one or two numbers measured on all Reddit posts and comments created in 2025: 494.3 million posts and 3.86 billion comments.

• Upvote and downvote

  51.8% of 2025 posts ended with a score of 1 or less.

• Karma

  5.8% of 2025 posts reached a score of 100 or more.

• Shadowban

  7.9% of 2025 posts were removed by Reddit itself.

• Crosspost

  5.0% of 2025 posts were crossposts.

• Removed vs deleted

  16.2% of 2025 posts were removed by a moderator, AutoModerator or Reddit.

• AutoModerator

  3.2% of 2025 comments were written by AutoModerator.

• Sticky post

  0.24% of 2025 posts were stickied.

• OP (original poster)

  10.6% of 2025 comments were written by the post's own author.