A reddit.com post has several removal states that look similar from outside: removed by a moderator, deleted by the author, or removed by the platform. They differ in whether the content is still reachable through other views, and only one of them reliably ends the item's life.
Left up, 40 exposed copies work out to an estimated $234 a month in diverted subscriptions. Estimate, not a measurement: it assumes 0.45 diverted subscribers per exposed post at an average subscription price of $12.99. Your number depends on your pricing and audience.
Removal route for reddit.com
Resolved live · no account · nothing uploaded
A notice for reddit.com goes to a curated route openDMCA already holds.
2 · RDAP abuse contact— resolves.abusecomplaints@markmonitor.com — the registrar's abuse desk, not reddit.com itself. Probed 2026-09-04.
3 · Fallback address— not needed.Not needed — an earlier rung resolved.
4 · Network and search— runs next.Cloudflare detection over DNS-over-HTTPS, then Google and Bing delisting of every indexed reddit.com URL.
What happens to what you type: nothing. The domain is matched against openDMCA's routing table in your browser. No request is made to reddit.com, no page is fetched, and the text is not stored or sent anywhere.
Removal route demo for reddit.com, still-live job.
Step by step
Open the permalink rather than the listing. Check the exact reddit.com permalink from your report. A subreddit listing that no longer shows a post is not evidence that the permalink stopped working.
Note which kind of removal you are seeing. A moderator removal, an author deletion and a platform removal present differently on reddit.com. The difference matters because some of them leave the content reachable through other views.
Check the comments for a reposted link. Comments often survive a post removal and often carry the working link. A removed post with a live comment link is a partial result rather than a completed one.
Search the permalink separately. Check whether the reddit.com permalink still returns in search. Platform state and index state are separate queues, and this is the surface where they diverge most.
Record the state, not a verdict. Note which kind of removal happened and whether comments survived. That detail decides whether another report is needed and which route it should use.
Why removal on reddit.com is not a single state
Moderator action, author deletion and platform action produce different outcomes on reddit.com, and only the platform-level one follows from a copyright or identity report. Recording which one occurred is what tells you whether the report worked or whether someone else acted first.
openDMCA stores dispatch status separately from removal status — delivered, failed, queued for a form, or throttled — and checks the URL afterwards rather than inferring the outcome from an accepted report.
openDMCA gives the first two hops away: you can open test whether the URL is really gone and run it on a URL of your own, with no account and nothing uploaded.
One thing that catches people out on reddit.com
On reddit.com a post can be removed while its comments remain visible and continue to carry working links, which means the item a creator reported can be gone while the distribution it enabled continues underneath it. A verification that checks only the post reports a success at exactly the moment the comment thread is still serving the material.
Frequently asked questions
The reddit.com post shows as removed. Is it over?
Check the comments. They frequently survive the post and frequently carry the working links, which makes a removed post with a live comment thread a partial result.
Does a moderator removal count?
It removes the item, which is the outcome that matters day to day. It does not create a platform-level record, so a repeat by the same account is not documented by it.
The permalink still appears in search.
Index entries outlive removed posts on this platform more visibly than on most. A delisting request removes the entry directly rather than waiting for a re-crawl.
Check one URL yourself before you assume it is gone — free, no account.