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r/askpolitics subreddit stats
Posts, comments, unique posters, link rates, and activity patterns from the last month, updated daily.
Updated . Reporting period: Sep 28, 2026–Oct 28, 2026 (UTC).
From September 28, 2026 to October 28, 2026, 2,859 users on r/askpolitics made 427 posts and 16,679 comments, or about 14 posts/day and 544 comments/day. The subreddit averaged 39.1 comments per post; 1.2% of posts and 1.5% of comments contained links. Its Health Score was 16.7/100, meaning unique posters divided by total posts and comments. The top 1% of users produced 4.2% of posts and 22.5% of comments. Activity is measured in UTC: the most active hour was 14:00 (1.8x avg), the most active day was Monday (1.3x avg), and normalized weekend volume was 0.66x weekday volume.
Daily activity in r/askpolitics
Daily totals combine posts and comments, grouped by UTC date. The lighter final bar shows a partial day through Oct 28 at 16:25 UTC.
Activity by day and hour
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Calculated . Based on comments from Oct 20 through Oct 26, 2026 (UTC). Results are refreshed after one month.
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