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r/randomactsofkindness

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

122.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 13.8K upvotes, which works out to 112 per 1,000 members.

112peak upvotes per 1,000 members
122.5Kmembers
13.8Kbest post
209most comments
103posts 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.

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Text 84% Image 10% Gallery 2% Video 2% Link 1% Question 1%

The topics it labels

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What the ceiling looks like

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

Someone stole my lunch 2 days ago. I posted a note I just wanted the bowl back and signed it “a broke college kid” to guilt whoever stole it. Complet…

↑ 13.8K 💬 89 image 2024

This was over 45 years ago, but it's still with me.

↑ 12.3K 💬 209 text 2024

To the 20-year-old construction worker who offered me a cheeseburger at 9:30am because I was crying in my car.

↑ 9.4K 💬 175 text 2024

Roscoe brings smiles and colour to the lives of people in his neighbourhood

↑ 9.2K 💬 39 image 2025

Think I found my new Christmas tradition instead of spending the day alone in my apartment

↑ 8.6K 💬 153 text 2024

A woman bought me a water to make a bottle, and held my baby while I actually made it

↑ 8.2K 💬 73 text 2025

My mom was so much kinder than I knew (and that says a lot)

↑ 7.7K 💬 178 text 2025

My tall husband helping short woman with items on top shelf at store and her helping him back

↑ 7.5K 💬 99 text 2025

My husband brought a stranger to sleep in our home

↑ 7.4K 💬 146 text 2025

I broke my ankle and can't walk. I asked my friend to pick me up a pint of whiskey for the pain and he went above and beyond.

↑ 7.4K 💬 109 text 2025

Communities its size

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

r/randomactsofkindness, in numbers

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

How many members does r/randomactsofkindness have?
r/randomactsofkindness has about 122.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 103 of its posts; the biggest reached 13.8K upvotes, which is 112 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/randomactsofkindness?
"Someone stole my lunch 2 days ago. I posted a note I just wanted the bowl back and signed it “a broke college kid” to guilt whoever stole it" reached 13.8K upvotes and 89 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/randomactsofkindness.
What subreddits are similar to r/randomactsofkindness?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/PopularCultureZone, r/topofreddit.
What kind of posts do best on r/randomactsofkindness?
Of the posts we hold, 84% are text posts and 10% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/randomactsofkindness?
Across 103 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 22:00 UTC (3.7K avg upvotes), Monday at 15:00 UTC (3.6K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 17:00 UTC (3.2K 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/randomactsofkindness?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/randomactsofkindness has 4.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 1 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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