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Malicious Compliance. People conforming to the letter, but not the spirit, of a request. Founded 2016 · 4.4M members · text posts only

4.4M members. The best post we have captured here reached 113.8K upvotes, which works out to 26 per 1,000 members.

26peak upvotes per 1,000 members
4.4Mmembers
113.8Kbest post
6.7Kmost comments
437posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

74% 23%
Text 74% Question 23% Link 2%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

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What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

HOA won’t let us fly our modest Pride flag, so we just follow the rules.

↑ 113.8K 💬 6.7K text 2021

My wife, a Venezuelan smartass

↑ 106.1K 💬 992 image 2018

Landlord advertises all of our company’s equipment for sale to our competitors. Best follow our eviction to the letter.

↑ 84.7K 💬 2.7K text 2020

Get rid of my vacation? Have fun replacing me.

↑ 83.3K 💬 2.4K question 2021

You demanded my entire team be at the office for the 4th of July. Fine, enjoy paying for the office party.

↑ 81.1K 💬 2.9K text 2022

Manager forces me to get a doctor's note despite it being illegal to do so. Doctor writes him the most passive aggressive note signing me off for 2 w…

↑ 80.2K 💬 2K text 2021

My boss LOVES to call me at 6:15 A.M. to ask me if I would LIKE to fill the shifts of the people who just called in sick.

↑ 79K 💬 2.6K text 2020

Take off my earphones while you're speaking to me? Sure, no problem officer.

↑ 75.8K 💬 2.3K question 2022

You can't continue working from home because you go idle in chat too often

↑ 75.6K 💬 4.7K text 2021

My neighbors wanted to call a professional to mark their property line, my parents agreed

↑ 74.2K 💬 2.2K text 2019

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/MaliciousCompliance, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/MaliciousCompliance?
r/MaliciousCompliance ("Malicious Compliance") describes itself this way: People conforming to the letter, but not the spirit, of a request. It was founded in 2016 and has 4.4M members.
How many members does r/MaliciousCompliance have?
r/MaliciousCompliance has about 4.4M members. ViralHunt has tracked 437 of its posts; the biggest reached 113.8K upvotes, which is 26 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/MaliciousCompliance?
"HOA won’t let us fly our modest Pride flag, so we just follow the rules." reached 113.8K upvotes and 6.7K comments in 2021, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/MaliciousCompliance.
What subreddits are similar to r/MaliciousCompliance?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/awfuleverything, r/interesting, r/dogpictures, r/im14andthisisdeep, r/JustGuysBeingDudes.
What kind of posts do best on r/MaliciousCompliance?
Of the posts we hold, 74% are text posts and 23% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/MaliciousCompliance?
Across 437 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 20:00 UTC (40.2K avg upvotes), Friday at 18:00 UTC (40.1K avg upvotes), Thursday at 17:00 UTC (38.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/MaliciousCompliance?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/MaliciousCompliance has 55.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 33 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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