To put that in perspective, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone clocked in at 76,944 words. That’s not including reading replies, formulating thoughts, and navigating through the nested threads. I read through the whole thing!)Īt typing 40 words per minute - that’s 981 minutes or almost 16.35 hours STRAIGHT of writing replies. The team made a total of 680 replies to Redditors, with Charles making 401 replies (totaling 30,741 words) and Danny made 279 replies (totaling 8504 words). What data do we know:Īt the time of my data gathering (Saturday night) – Did 36,400 people think the AMA was interesting? Did the level of engagement make the post rank higher and gave it more visibility? Or was it some weird, mysterious backroom deal where ten men in suits decide this should be Friday’s top post? While Faux-Operative Games’s AMA had such high upvote numbers, it’s impossible to know what those numbers mean really. The Reddit voting algorithm uses fuzzy numbers. It gave them a huge boost in attention and sales - which I cover later in this post.įirst, some clarity.
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It’s one of the top Ask Me Anythings for the month of April - joining Bill Nye, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, rapper Lil Dicky, and a 74-year-old European grandma.It stayed there for more than 12 hours (average posts drop off at the 4-hour mark).Their AMA post went on the Front Page of Reddit.What were some achievements of their post? But if you want to know what happened when the two-person dev team of Faux-Operative Games, Charles and Danny made a post that got 36.4k upvotes on Reddit, this is it.