Bogdan
Community Lead · SE Ranking
Research & Experiment
Key takeaways
- 0:0042 of 482 tracked Reddit posts generated almost half of all 7,307 AI citations, showing AI repeatedly cites the same threads rather than distributing citations evenly.
- 5:52Upvotes had almost no correlation with AI citations; the most commonly cited posts had around 10 upvotes, not thousands, so gaming upvote counts is wasted effort.
- 3:33Posts that appeared consistently in every check across six monitoring periods were cited 52 times more than one-off posts, making stability the strongest predictor of AI visibility.
- 5:02Threads with question titles are cited out of proportion to their frequency because AI searches for straightforward answers it can lift directly into responses.
- 8:03Most influential posts were at least three months old; giving up within weeks means quitting before the thread has time to accumulate citations and influence.