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2.9M members. The best post we have captured here reached 56.8K upvotes, which works out to 20 per 1,000 members.
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The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
META: Today's sedition at the United States Capitol is something unprecedented in American history
[X-Post] Reddit's unwillingness to properly contain COVID-19 misinformation is part of a broad trend of inadequate action by the Admins against bad f…
AskHistorians is closing to new posts from 8:30 PM EDT to 12 PM EDT tomorrow to protest the reddit admins' providing a home for hate speech.
In 30 minutes, at 8:30 PM EDT, /r/AskHistorians will be going dark for one hour in protest of broken promises by the Admins
Askhistorians has a policy of zero tolerance for genocide denial
Thank you everyone who supported us the past day. The Admins have listened and removed the unmoderated Chat feature from the site. We deeply apprecia…
META: AskHistorians is shifting to Bluesky as our primary platform for off-Reddit outreach
Is it possible with ancient cultures that we are falsely misled to think they took their beliefs entirely seriously? I.E similar to someone in 3000 y…
What did Native Americans use to wipe their butts? (This sounds ridiculous but I have a good reason to ask)
hey mods, i know you’ll remove this but i just wanna say thank you for making this such a professional and truly educational subreddit, keep up the g…
Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.
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Start free →Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/AskHistorians, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.