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jules on Oct 3, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Analyze Every Reddit Submission and Comment...

To figure out what's the best time to post to reddit you want the number of successful submissions divided by the total number of submissions in that time period, not just the count of successful submissions. Otherwise you may just be measuring which time slot has the most submissions.

minimaxir on Oct 3, 2015 | [–]

The normalization constraint is enforced by the limited size of the front page (30 entries).

hueving on Oct 4, 2015 | | [–]

But the front page can churn a lot more during the busy times.

soared on Oct 4, 2015 | [–]

Visualization of times between subreddits (u/fhoffa) https://i.imgur.com/iF2msED.png

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