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[–]kcrobinson 26 points27 points  (1 child)

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Washington DC wins for best description. "Unrepresentated Citizens". Love it.

[–]flippityfloppityfloo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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As the mod who implemented this, I say thanks!

[–]BlankVerse[S] 28 points29 points * (14 children)

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Here are the stats based on redditors per metro population (compiled by grondin):

rank reddit subscribers description Metro-population[1] percent
1 Austin 7225 readers 1,716,291 0.4210%
2 Portland 6392 Predditors 2,260,000 0.2828%
3 Seattle 9411 Seattleites 3,407,848 0.2762%
4 Vancouver 3658 readers 2,116,581 0.1728%
5 Boston 7280 readers 4,522,858 0.1610%
6 Toronto 7705 Torontonians 5,113,149 0.1507%
7 SanFrancisco 5902 readers 4,335,391 0.1361%
8 pittsburgh 2938 Pittsburghers 2,356,285 0.1247%
9 sandiego 3163 readers 3,095,313 0.1022%
10 Chicago 9665 Chicagoans 9,461,105 0.1022%
11 twincitiessocial 3227 socialites 3,279,833 0.0984%
12 washingtondc 4748 Unrepresentated Citizens 5,580,000 0.0851%
13 denver 2165 mile high redditors 2,552,195 0.0848%
14 philadelphia 4518 Philadelphians 5,965,343 0.0757%
15 Montreal 2692 readers 3,635,571 0.0740%
16 BayArea 5322 readers 7,468,390 0.0713%
17 atlanta 3635 readers 5,268,860 0.0690%
18 NYC 11604 readers 18,897,109 0.0614%
19 melbourne 2121 readers 4,077,036 0.0520%
20 houston 2882 Houstonians 5,946,800 0.0485%
21 LosAngeles 6385 Angeleños 15,250,000 0.0419%
22 Dallas 2450 readers 6,477,315 0.0378%
23 london 4057 readers 12,300,000 0.0330%

[1] wikipedia.org

Note: added r/pittsburgh using colindean's data.

[–]colindean 11 points12 points  (2 children)

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/r/pittsburgh reddit (included in the OP) has 2,938 readers of its 2,356,285 person metro pop. That's 0.124688%.

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    [–]DRUG_USER 3 points4 points  (1 child)

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    Listing the whole bay area for SF is kind of misleading. r/SF is one of a handful of city subreddits within the bay area. Our actual pop is less than 800,000, so our actual percentage would be about 5.5x higher.

    [–]eavc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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    Same for Atlanta then.

    [–]darrendloux 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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    (woot!)

    [–]floydianchild -1 points0 points  (6 children)

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    wouldnt description be 2692 Montrealers ?

    [–]BlankVerse[S] 6 points7 points * (5 children)

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    The description is taken from the sidebar for /r/montreal. That's the reason that /r/WashingtonDC says Unrepresentated Citizens and /r/Boston now says Massholes. If you think that should be changed, then you need to take up the issue with the moderators for /r/montreal.

    [–]kitsunebabs87 1 point2 points  (2 children)

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    Your missing Detroit...Michigan for that matter :(

    [–]BlankVerse[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

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    Here are the largest city reddits ordered by the number of readers as of 20 August 2011 (only those with > 2,000 readers):

    /r/Detroit even now only has 1,289 subscribers, so it didn't qualify for this list. There's probably a dozen or more cities where the number of subscribers is between Detroit and Melbourne.

    [–]kitsunebabs87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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    Oh thanks :)

    [–]floydianchild 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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    Ah i understand, thanks for the precision friend :)

    [–]Unfa -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

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    Calm down.

    [–]reiduh -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

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    When you do the math on Metro-population density of "Bay Area (proper)", it's 5322(/r/bayarea)+5902(/r/SanFrancisco), so it's 11,224/7,468,390 = 0.15% overall are redditors =D

    Our community is so special, there's bound to be some overlap...

    [–]yinzer 9 points10 points  (3 children)

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    /r/pittsburgh has 2,938 Pittsburghers!

    [–]BlankVerse[S] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

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    How did I miss them?

    I blame it on doing the list very late at night.

    [–]yinzer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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    It's all good, thanks for adding us in!

    [–]BlankVerse[S] 4 points5 points * (2 children)

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    Whoops! I missed:

    [–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

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    /r/Montreal appears twice

    [–]BlankVerse[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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    fixed

    [–]darkjedisa 9 points10 points  (1 child)

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    San Antonio is not on the list because it is well known for its high rate of undocumented lurkers!

    [–]connorveale -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

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    Also because San Antonio is lame. I think we have nothing in common besides our love for Reddit.

    [–]TehBoardGirl 3 points4 points  (3 children)

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    Bay area isn't a city :D

    [–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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    If I recall correctly, Bay Area is actually a series of tubes.

    [–]ki11a11hippies 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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    They treat it the same way as the DC metro area.

    [–]stokerj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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    It seems that many of the "city" subreddits group themselves on the much the same criteria as media markets that represent them. Imagine living in a city next to another couple of notable cities, where the local news stations cover all the local cities and outlying communities, or at least have near overlapping affiliates covering the area. Except the San Francisco/BayArea subreddits...maybe the exception to the rule?

    [–]ToTheUninitiated 3 points4 points  (1 child)

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    awwe dude, that's like a list of all the "cool" cities. we're cool, right? :/

    [–]msprout 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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    Of course we're cool!

    The other day, I was riding through Point State Park with a group of bicycles, and we were all slowly climbing a gradual hill. We rolled past two musicians in full suits, playing a violin and an upright bass. We looked at eachother and laughed.

    [–]jatorres 7 points8 points  (2 children)

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    Keep Houston Apathetic.

    [–]lamontsf 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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    go Texans. Or, you know, don't.

    [–]MixMasterMadge 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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    Meh.

    [–]flamehead2k1 3 points4 points  (1 child)

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    9./r/SanFrancisco 5,902 readers 10./r/BayArea 5,322 readers

    It would be interesting to know how many of the subscribers are common to both

    [–]BlankVerse[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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    Absolutely no way to find out unless you are one of the reddit admins.

    [–]catwok 1 point2 points  (5 children)

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    /r/twincitiessocial 3,226 socialites

    [–]BlankVerse[S] 3 points4 points  (4 children)

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    So why does /r/twincities have only 950 readers.

    [–]catwok 0 points1 point  (3 children)

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    Dunno, all the reddits are weird here. There are /r/minneapolis and /r/stpaul too i think. People feel "safer" in larger subreddits I guess.

    [–]BlankVerse[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

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    [–]catwok 1 point2 points  (1 child)

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    lol

    [–]BlankVerse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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    I just looked up the Twin Cities info on the Wikipedia and was surprised that both Minneapolis and St. Paul are pretty small compared to the size of the total metro area, so r/twincities really does make a lot of sense.

    It's much like Anaheim and Santa Ana are pretty large cities in their own right, but they really loose their identity within the urban sprawl of Orange County, CA.

    [–]epictetvs 1 point2 points * (1 child)

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    1. San Antonio has been the poorest of the major Texas cities for quite some time. I think their is a correlation between affluence and redditing.

    2. San Antonio has a lack of big tech and fortune 500 companies that comparably large cities have. I think reddit starts with tech savvy people who then spread the reddit gospel around.

    3. CookieOfFortune pointed out that "Austin actually has the highest density of redditors." Look at how liberal and young Austin is. I think the overall population on reddit is young and liberal, and San Antonio isn't.

    4. San Antonio probably isn't as white as some of the high reddit density cities are. This is just a guess.

    I realize this are all very gross generalizations, all of witch any one could point to counter examples to try to disprove. There has to be a reason we are so under represented. This is just my best crack at it.

    edit ooops I saved this to the wrong thread.

    [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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    Atlanta is pretty black, but also pretty hipster.

    [–]analogkid01 1 point2 points  (2 children)

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    1. /r/sandiego 3,163 readers

    San Diegoites? San Diegoans? San Diegans?

    [–]BlankVerse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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    San Diegans is the proper denonym, according to the Wikipedia.

    [–]BlankVerse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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    If I remember correctly, /r/sandiego was around 1,800 or 1,900 when I made the list, whereas the cutoff was 2,000 subscribers.

    [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

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    2,450? Bitch please, /r/dallas now has 3700 readers!

    [–]BlankVerse[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

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    Think of the list as a snapshot.

    Every city on that list has greatly increased their number of subscribers, although the relative ranking has changed for only a few cities.

    [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

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    Pshh, bitch pl.......hmmm, you have a point.

    [–]BlankVerse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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    I keep wanting to read your user name as GrandNegus. ;)

    I'm a little surprised that user doesn't exist (or maybe has been shadow-banned).

    [–]CookieOfFortune 0 points1 point  (3 children)

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    Austin actually has the highest density of redditors.

    [–]St-Radiguns 1 point2 points  (2 children)

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    And it's fucking annoying. I hate being in social situations where >50% of conversation points are reddit based.

    [–]CookieOfFortune 1 point2 points  (1 child)

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    Lol does that happen? I think I'd be amused l initially.

    [–]St-Radiguns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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    It's cool being able to talk about it with your friends, but it's even cooler talking about stuff on reddit to people who have never heard of the site.

    [–]stokerj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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    We suck as a media market partly because of a pronounced digital divide.

    [–]foggybottom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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    i know it might be small but you might want to add /r/nova to the DC subreddit as Northern VA is considered part of the DC metro area... just sayin'

    [–]lookwest 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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    Wooo!

    [–]Nateadelphia 0 points1 point  (4 children)

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    I bet we can crack the top ten.

    [–]BlankVerse[S] 1 point2 points * (3 children)

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    Who's we?

    /r/Philadelphia?

    I probably should delete r/BayArea, since it's not really a city, so that gets you one step closer. I'll bet that r/WashingtonDC won't give up without a fight, especially if I publicize your efforts. ;)

    [–]Nateadelphia 1 point2 points  (2 children)

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    Yeah I thought I was all postin' in a r/philly thread. so much for going incognito.

    [–]BlankVerse[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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    Nateadelphia is going incognito?

    [–]BlankVerse[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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    Here's the /philly post if you really want to comment there.

    [–]pingr -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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    shit yeah we are

    [–]BindersHat -1 points0 points  (1 child)

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    Change Pittsburghers to Jagoffs.

    [–]BlankVerse[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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    /r/pittsburgh still says Pittsburghers.
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