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r/politics

/r/Politics is for news and discussion about U.S. politics. Founded 2007 · 9.3M members · links only

9.3M members. The best post we have captured here reached 214.3K upvotes, which works out to 23 per 1,000 members.

23peak upvotes per 1,000 members
9.3Mmembers
214.3Kbest post
80.7Kmost comments
3.9Kposts 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.

99%
Link 99% Text 1%

The topics it labels

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

No Paywall 2115 Possible Paywall 1196 Paywall 122 Registration Wall 61 Site Altered Headline | No Paywall 8 Megathread 8 Site Altered Headline | Possible Paywall 6 Site Altered Headline 5 Discussion 5 AMA-Live Now 4

What the ceiling looks like

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

Megathread: Joe Biden Projected to Defeat President Donald Trump and Win the 2020 US Presidential Election

↑ 214.3K 💬 80.7K text 2020

Mitch McConnell Will Lose Control Of The Senate As Democrats Have Swept The Georgia Runoffs

↑ 156.8K 💬 10.1K link 2021

Megathread: House Votes to Impeach President Donald J. Trump

↑ 147.7K 💬 50.5K text 2019

Trump Threatens to ‘Leave the Country’ if He Loses to Biden

↑ 135.3K 💬 16.1K link 2020

Demands for Kushner to Resign Over 'Staggering' Level of 'Depravity' That Put Politics Before Public Health. "Holy hell. Jared Kushner reportedly aba…

↑ 129.7K 💬 6.7K link 2020

Over A million people sign petition calling for KKK to be declared a terrorist group

↑ 129.2K 💬 5.7K link 2020

Report: Biden Admin Discovers Trump Had Zero Plans For COVID Vaccine Distribution

↑ 128K 💬 8.1K link 2021

Biden's Pennsylvania lead is now big enough to avoid an automatic recount

↑ 125.9K 💬 5.5K link 2020

Donald Trump Has Just Left the White House—This Time, for Good

↑ 125.2K 💬 5.7K link 2021

Virginia governor makes Election Day a holiday and expands early voting

↑ 124.1K 💬 4.1K link 2020

Communities its size

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

r/politics, in numbers

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

What is r/politics?
r/politics describes itself this way: /r/Politics is for news and discussion about U.S. politics. It was founded in 2007 and has 9.3M members.
How many members does r/politics have?
r/politics has about 9.3M members. ViralHunt has tracked 3.9K of its posts; the biggest reached 214.3K upvotes, which is 23 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/politics?
"Megathread: Joe Biden Projected to Defeat President Donald Trump and Win the 2020 US Presidential Election" reached 214.3K upvotes and 80.7K comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/politics.
What subreddits are similar to r/politics?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/antiwork, r/youseeingthisshit, r/Satisfyingasfuck, r/shitposting, r/PrequelMemes, r/oddlyterrifying.
What kind of posts do best on r/politics?
Of the posts we hold, 99% are link posts and 1% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/politics?
Across 3.9K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 01:00 UTC (25.8K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 05:00 UTC (23.3K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 02:00 UTC (19.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. 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/politics?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/politics has 116.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 596 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/politics, 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.