I analyzed the top 50 posts on the sub this year

I plugged in and plotted out data from each of the top 50 posts in the sub over the last year with excel and here’s what I found:

- the top 50 posts on r/cc had a combined upvote total of 655,400. That’s some serious good karma. The average karma for a top 50 post was 13,100.

• the average number of comments in a top 50 post was 1,978.. with the most comments by far in the #18th-highest post by u/Hiddenknifex 99% of the crypto market has O real world utility. Change my mind at 11,000 comments. Talk about community engagement! (And getting everyone riled up).

• only 3 users had more than 1 post in the top 50: u/Fun-Literature4569 (#4 & 36), u/Set1Less (#11, 12, 15, 27, & 39 – all insightful text posts) and u/ nanooverbtc (#24, 44, & 46). Congrats!

• the user with the most NSFW handle in the top 50 by far was u/EatMaTesticles congrats!

• most of the posts occurred in the first 1/3 of the year, with the average post age putting it in April. This probably had to do with less overall activity on the sub as crypto crabbed and continued to lose value over the year. Certainly there were some outliers including several top posts in December and one yesterday that made me have to redo all my numbers, sly fox. There were no posts at all from September or October that made it to the top 50… slow months for news?

• posts created on a Monday accounted for 10/50 (20%) of the posts in the top 50, followed by Wednesdays and Thursdays at 9/50 or 18% each. Posts created on a Tuesday only appeared in the top 50 3 times (6%).

• how about post flair? By far, general-news was the top flair, at 22/50 posts (44%). This was followed by discussion (4/50, 8%), and exchanges (3/50) as the next runners-up. Comedy flair squeaked in with 1/50. Sadly: anecdotal, legacy, mining, moons, new-coin, poll, project-update, regulations, reminder, scalability, speculation, strategy, staking, technology, tools, videos, pro-arguments, and con-arguments flairs didn’t reach the podium at all.

• this next one was surprising: post type. While link posts did account for 27/50 (54%) of the top posts, text posts which are arguably far more effort made up a respectable 20/50 (40%) and prediction posts rounded it out at 3/50 (6 %).

• of link posts, the most common sites featured in the top 50 were fin bold (3x), benzinga.com (2x), CoinDesk (2x), and beincrypto (2x).

• topics of the year: Ukraine/Russia related topics made up 8 of the top 50 posts. Followed closely with posts about BTC at 7 of the top 50. Tied with this was SBF/FTX crash-related posts at 7 of the top 50. Posts relating to ETH made up 4 of the top 50. Unfortunately, scammer Jake Paul made an appearance in the top 50 twice (but props to the posters nonetheless). Otherwise there was a variety of topics that made up the top 50 that we collectively upvoted, and not a ton of repeats.

• it was surprising to see that the Luna collapse only showed up once in the top 50 and NFTs only showed up twice. Reddit avatars didn’t make the top 50 at all.

I tried to sum up the biggest data points here. What does it all mean? Well, I’ll leave that up to you. But my takeaways: follow u/Set1Less b/c they’ve got some quality posts. Nothing good happens on Tuesdays. Maybe we all need to use some different flairs besides general-news now and again. Many users have 69 in their handle. Financial websites such as benzinga have high quality articles about crypto (a nice alternative to browsing crypto-only news sites). And I’m glad to see that SBF and FTX didn’t totally run the tables on all the other good posts and stories of crypto over the last year. Thanks for the posts this year and have a good 2023 everyone.