>>58855657Consider that a post there gets like 5k upvotes after staying up for like 15-20 hours.
That's PASSIVE engagement, i.e. a single click if you already have an account. It does have the barrier of needing an account to post, but pretty much 99% of reddit users would already have an account since they literally can't interact with the website without one.
Also one person can do multiple comments on reddit without cooldown, although this does tend to be considered as spam when done by one person.
ACTIVE engagement is in the form of posts and comments. Front page posts rotate frequently, so post #s are always consistent, but comments will be where the actual engagement shows.
If you check the reddit front page right now, from the top 25 posts there's a grand total of 881 comments.
It goes up to 1287 after including two BIG EVENT streams i.e. Kronii and Fauna's 3D.
So that's generously about 1000 posts in 24 hours if you consider regular traffic without events - plus or minus a few hundred from the "new" page.
/vt/ posts, meanwhile, don't have the account filter.
But they do have a capcha filter and a 60s cooldown on posts.
The last numbers thread that started 2.5 hours ago had 590 posts before getting archived.
i.e. just the /#/ thread can reach reddit's 24 hour engagement levels in a mere 5 hour period.
And we're just one thread among 10 PAGES full of them, and not even the biggest thread on the board.
/vt/'s engagement rate severely outclasses that of reddit in all metrics.
