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r/socialscience

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

54.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 10.9K upvotes, which works out to 199 per 1,000 members.

199peak upvotes per 1,000 members
54.8Kmembers
10.9Kbest post
2.6Kmost comments
100posts 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.

76% 9%
Link 76% Question 9% Image 6% Text 6% Video 3%

What the ceiling looks like

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

Nearly twice as many Americans view Trump as "dictator" as they do Zelensky

↑ 10.9K 💬 60 link 2025

Trump Says He Will Deport U.S.-Born Kids Together With Undocumented Parents

↑ 9.6K 💬 779 link 2024

The MAGA version of manhood is one imagined by teenage boys

↑ 7.5K 💬 123 link 2025

How Hitler Dismantled German Democracy in 53 Days

↑ 6.3K 💬 265 link 2025

Republicans cancel social science courses in Florida

↑ 5.6K 💬 886 link 2024

Ron DeSantis condemned as Florida removes sociology as core college class

↑ 3.9K 💬 2.1K link 2024

What so many high-profile shootings have in common: isolated young men

↑ 3.8K 💬 1.4K link 2024

Emphasizing Jesus’s teachings shifts white evangelicals’ attitudes away from Republican anti-refugee positions

↑ 3.6K 💬 212 link 2025

A videoessay on why conservatives look for strong father figures in politics

↑ 2.8K 💬 110 video 2025

Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism

↑ 2.6K 💬 140 link 2025

Communities its size

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

r/socialscience, in numbers

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

How many members does r/socialscience have?
r/socialscience has about 54.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 100 of its posts; the biggest reached 10.9K upvotes, which is 199 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/socialscience?
"Nearly twice as many Americans view Trump as "dictator" as they do Zelensky" reached 10.9K upvotes and 60 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/socialscience.
What subreddits are similar to r/socialscience?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/socialscience?
Of the posts we hold, 76% are link posts and 9% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/socialscience?
Across 100 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 16:00 UTC (3.2K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 13:00 UTC (2.3K avg upvotes), Sunday at 15:00 UTC (1.9K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. 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/socialscience?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/socialscience has 554 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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