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r/ScienceBasedParenting

279.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 4.3K upvotes, which works out to 15 per 1,000 members.

15peak upvotes per 1,000 members
279.4Kmembers
4.3Kbest post
786most comments
500posts 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.

49% 41% 9%
Text 49% Question 41% Link 9% Image 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.

Question - Research required 227 Question - Expert consensus required 67 Sharing research 35 Science journalism 24 Link - News Article/Editorial 6 General Discussion 6 Casual Conversation 5 Discovery/Sharing Information 4 Link - Study 4 All Advice Welcome 3

What the ceiling looks like

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

Motion to ban ChatGPT from this sub

↑ 4.3K 💬 29 text 2025

Enough with the vaccine questions!

↑ 2.1K 💬 79 text 2026

I saw this on r/Embroidery and thought this group would appreciate it!

↑ 1.9K 💬 12 image 2022

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

↑ 1.7K 💬 284 link 2026

FDA bans red dye No. 3 from food and drinks in the US

↑ 1.7K 💬 328 link 2025

Starting catch up vaccines at 2?

↑ 1.5K 💬 185 question 2026

They say a child’s brain is wired for genius. Until we “fix” it.

↑ 1.3K 💬 70 text 2025

Not even pregnant and my fiancé is already discouraging Tylenol what do I do

↑ 1.2K 💬 135 text 2025

Thought my baby is the cutest one alive until I looked back at her pictures

↑ 1.1K 💬 101 text 2026

An RSV vaccination is coming!

↑ 1.1K 💬 46 text 2022

Communities its size

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

r/ScienceBasedParenting, in numbers

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

How many members does r/ScienceBasedParenting have?
r/ScienceBasedParenting has about 279.4K members. ViralHunt has tracked 500 of its posts; the biggest reached 4.3K upvotes, which is 15 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/ScienceBasedParenting?
"Motion to ban ChatGPT from this sub" reached 4.3K upvotes and 29 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/ScienceBasedParenting.
What subreddits are similar to r/ScienceBasedParenting?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/ScienceBasedParenting?
Of the posts we hold, 49% are text posts and 41% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/ScienceBasedParenting?
Across 500 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 12:00 UTC (729 avg upvotes), Thursday at 11:00 UTC (594 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 15:00 UTC (562 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. 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/ScienceBasedParenting?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/ScienceBasedParenting has 798 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 25 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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