<b>This week on Reddit marketing: timing for vote velocity</b>

<b>This week on Reddit marketing: timing for vote velocity</b>

The algorithm rewards early speed — here's this week's evidence on when to post.

— [Tactic] First-hour upvote rate matters more than total; a slow post never recovers (r/TheoryOfReddit)
— [Tool] subredditstats and later-mover tools to find each sub's actual peak hour, which varies wildly (r/DataIsBeautiful)
— [Case] A US-product founder posting at 6am ET caught the early-East-Coast wave and rode it all day (r/Entrepreneur)
— [Rule-change] Reddit dampened the old 'rising' boost, so coordinated early votes look more suspicious now (r/modnews)
— [Tactic] Avoid asking for upvotes anywhere — vote manipulation is a site-wide bannable offense (r/help)

Editor's pick: the dampened-rising note — a timely correction to the old playbook, since the early-vote tricks that worked years ago now flag your account instead.