r/politics
Founded August 2007 · Public — anyone can post
/r/Politics is for news and discussion about U.S. politics.
Members
9,271,574
9.3M
Online now
—
not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
187
from the last 100 posts, spanning 12.7h
Comments per post
—
no sample yet
Growth · 7d
+0.1%
+5.1K members · ≈7d
Growth · 30d
+0.3%
+23K members · ≈30d
Promo tolerance
—
not assessed yet
Last post
Sep 25
sampled Sep 25
Distinct posters
86%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Aug 4 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
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Politics Now is a subreddit where having a popular political opinion, and/or one that conflicts with that of the moderators, will not get you banned. We have just a few rules you must follow, along with Reddit rules and it's content policy. We moderate according to the Reddit Moderator Guidelines, we engage in good faith, and the policy is bans are a last resort.
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r/politics — frequently asked
How many members does r/politics have?
r/politics has 9,271,574 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 25. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/politics growing?
Over the last ≈30 days r/politics changed by +0.3% — a gain of 23K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".
How active is r/politics?
Around 187 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 12.7h. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
When was r/politics created?
r/politics was founded in August 2007 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Who posts in r/politics?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 86% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 25. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.
Can I promote my product in r/politics?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/politics yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/politics for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/politics into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/politics's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/politics's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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