r/politics

Founded August 2007 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Oct 5

/r/Politics is for news and discussion about U.S. politics.

Members

9,277,742

9.3M

Online now

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not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

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Comments per post

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Growth · 7d

+0.1%

+4.7K members · ≈7d

Growth · 30d

+0.2%

+22K members · ≈30d

Promo tolerance

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not assessed yet

Last post

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Distinct posters

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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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r/politics — frequently asked

How many members does r/politics have?

r/politics has 9,277,742 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 5. 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 +0.2% — a gain of 22K 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?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/politics yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.

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.

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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