r/askscience
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Community Stats
- Subscribers
- 26M
- Content rating
- SFW
- Created
- 2008-09-05
- Posts per day
- 2/day
- Comments per day
- 100/day
- Discussion style
- Comment-heavy
- Top post
- 8,000 upvotes
- Top 100 median
- 1,100 upvotes
- Competition
- Competitive
r/askscience is a SFW subreddit with 26.1 million subscribers, created in 2008. Posts average about 2 per day with 102 comments per day, making it a comment-heavy community. Top posts this year scored up to 8K upvotes, with a typical top-100 post earning 1.1K. It's a highly competitive community — the 100th-ranked top post of the past year is from 20 days ago. Browse 24 closely related communities below to find similar subreddits.
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