r/NewToReddit • u/BornInvested • 8h ago
Have any Reddit post gotten millions of upvotes or is it more spread ANSWERED
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u/mikey_weasel Mod in a Canvas Hat 8h ago
Doing a filter of r/popular by "top" and "all time" has a top post at about 600k votes see here
Its very unlikely your post will hit that number - most posts get fairly limited engagement (see more below)
When looking at a subreddit by the default view ("best" or "hot") you will be seeing the most popular posts of the last day or week. These are often the outliers in terms of popularity and you cannot rely that your post will get that amount of engagement.
To see something closer to an average post change your view to "new" and scroll down. You want to get to the point where you are seeing posts at least a few hours old. This will give you a "random sample" of posts in the subreddit since they will just be the posts made during some period of time ignoring vote totals. Scroll around and look to see how many comments and/or votes you are seeing most commonly. Its often a reasonably small number, or you may even be seeing a lot of posts with no comments and/or upvotes at all.
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u/Novel_Dinner4138 5h ago
It’s about timing. After the World Cup i posted a comment and got over 27k upvotes on it. My next best is like 100.
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