About r/NoStupidQuestions
In its own words:
Ask away! Disclaimer: This is an anonymous forum so answers may not be correct
Community guide
r/NoStupidQuestions exists for earnest, answerable curiosity—questions you might hesitate to ask elsewhere. It sits at #102 on our SFW Top 1000 (about 7.6 million subscribers in the directory). The culture is defined less by “anything goes” than by a hard filter on top-level replies: they must be genuine human attempts at an answer, not jokes parked in the first slot. The public disclaimer on the community is blunt: it is anonymous, so answers may be wrong—useful humility for readers.
What belongs here
Straightforward questions across everyday knowledge, with an expectation that people searched the sub first. Medical advice, suicide-related questions, and rape/assault disclosure prompts are explicitly barred in the rules we collected—those need appropriate resources, not this forum.
Versus AskReddit and topic Ask-subs
AskReddit optimises for discussion prompts and anecdote threads. Specialist Ask-subs (for example science or culinary) want domain framing. NoStupidQuestions wants a real attempt at answering in top comments and blocks trolling or joke questions. If you need peer-reviewed depth, askScience-style communities are safer; if you want stories, AskReddit fits better.
Posting practicalities
Search first; keep the question sincere; expect removals for agenda posts, pot-stirring, or illegal/disturbing subject matter. Our activity sample shows essentially all-text posting at very high volume (on the order of a thousand posts per day in the sample window)—visibility is fleeting.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Feb 2, 2013, which makes it 13 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 17,082 subscribers (+0.23%). It sits just behind r/MakeupAddiction (#101) and ahead of r/itookapicture (#103) in our ranking.
What sets r/NoStupidQuestions apart
r/NoStupidQuestions is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 100% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 34% across the Top 100. For its size it is unusually busy: about 154.2 new posts a day per million members, more than 99% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 1.29% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 98% of the Top 100.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/NoStupidQuestions climbed from 7,501,488 to 7,598,491 subscribers (+97K, +1.29%). That is about 2,205 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
Top posts on r/NoStupidQuestions this week
This week’s highest-ranked posts, in Reddit’s own order (collected Nov 2, 2026).
- Apple face-time removed my bf from the call after I removed my bra. Is this a new feature??u/Amber_Orchid03 · Oct 26 · text post
- $1.8 trillion wiped out from the US stock market today, where'd it go?u/Goos3rs · Oct 31 · text post
- are cops allowed to tell you to go home?u/potentialgranny64 · Oct 30 · text post
- Should I report someone for violating their parole?u/ginormousbong · Oct 26 · text post
- Is a mass world event about to happen?u/IceFireHawk · Oct 30 · text post
- Why don't billionaires just sell all of their stock and go retire in an island in the Bahamas or something?u/Long_Reflection_4202 · Oct 27 · text post
- Why are all our virtual assistants women? Where are the men?u/Tzaziki_bowl · Oct 29 · text post
- I unfortunately have to use adult diapers, can others smell them?u/Character_Pattern424 · Oct 31 · text post
- How can Hiroshima and Nagasaki be inhabitable after having a nuke dropped on them but Chernobyl is a no-go zone?u/Darth-Buttcheeks · Oct 30 · text post
- When some men say they don’t like makeup , what does that mean exactly?u/BiIIie-Eyelash · Oct 31 · text post
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/NoStupidQuestions, from 2017 to 2025, ranked by Reddit.
- What are Florida ounces?u/snapwillow · Feb 8, 2022 · 107,680 points · 6,951 comments · text post
- Why is it "price gouging" when people resell sanitizer for an extra 10% but perfectly fine for pharmaceutical companies to mark life saving medicine 1000%?u/tysonchickenuggets · Mar 19, 2020 · 95,696 points · 4,644 comments · text post
- Is Reddit actually making it so you can get coins for upvoting?u/turcotte14 · Dec 19, 2019 · 95,844 points · 1,859 comments · text post
- Anybody else skip past the ads on google and click the first “real” link to get to a website even if the ad will take you to the same place?u/TriangularOval · Jan 27, 2021 · text post
- Does anyone else stay up at night because they feel if they go to sleep then they havent gotten enough free time at home?u/BlueRobotics · Aug 27, 2019 · 69,498 points · 4,023 comments · text post
- Does anybody else hate how the Internet now feels like 7 major websites which are all interconnected, whereas it used to feel like a vast place with something new around every corner?u/fmitz · Jan 22, 2021 · text post
- Is it normal to read a few pages of a book and then suddenly realize that you have no idea what's going on in the plot because you have been reading the words but not internalizing their meaning? I a…u/Flakesdinner · Dec 26, 2020 · text post
- Does anyone else stay up at night because that’s the only time they can be alone?u/Icantthinkofaname872 · Jan 8, 2022 · 58,491 points · 4,291 comments · text post
- My birth certificate says I was born in 1670, not 1970, making me 354 years old, instead of 54. Is there any fun, legal way I can exploit this to my benefit?u/askingquestionsblog · Feb 28, 2025 · text post
- Is it weird that my 35 year old friend is waiting for a 17 year old girl to turn 18 so he can ask her out?Jun 14, 2023 · 52,762 points · 17,669 comments · text post
What r/NoStupidQuestions talks about
Across 699 recent posts (Oct 25–Oct 31), the words that come up most are “actually”, “feel”, “life”, “women” and “different”. Other frequent themes are person, weird, bad, work, real and wrong. Recurring phrases include “social media”, “actually happen”, “dead internet” and “internet theory”. By format, 100% are text posts.
Popular post flairs: Removed: Loaded Question I (7), Removed: Engagement Bait/Karma Farming I (5), Removed: Trolling/Joke (5), Removed: FAQ (3), Removed: Tasteless or Disturbing I (2), Removed: Common Sense (2).
Activity and best time to post
r/NoStupidQuestions gets about 1,170 new posts a day. The public archive holds 4,892,996 posts and 64,108,977 comments in total, about 13.1 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Thursday (1,246 posts) and the quietest was Monday (1,116). Posting peaks around 16:00 UTC and is lowest around 06:00 UTC.
Rules of r/NoStupidQuestions
The moderators of r/NoStupidQuestions list 9 rules. In short:
- Top level comments must contain a genuine human-written attempt at an answer
- Please try searching the subreddit for your question first
- Be Nice
- No medical advice questions
- No trolling or joke questions
- No suicide or 'was I raped/sexual assaulted/sexually harrassed?' questions
- No self-promotion, shilling or begging
- No illegal/unethical or disturbing subject matter
- No disguised rants, agenda posts or potstirring
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/NoStupidQuestions?
r/NoStupidQuestions has 7,598,491 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #102 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 97,003 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/NoStupidQuestions created?
r/NoStupidQuestions was created on Feb 2, 2013, so it has been around for 13 years.
Is r/NoStupidQuestions still active?
Yes. r/NoStupidQuestions gets about 1,170 new posts a day (average of the last week). Over its lifetime the archive counts 4,892,996 posts and 64,108,977 comments. In a sample of 699 recent posts we counted 618 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/NoStupidQuestions?
Based on post counts from Oct 24, 2026 to Oct 30, 2026, the busiest day was Thursday and the quietest Monday, and most posts arrive around 16:00 UTC, with the fewest around 06:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/NoStupidQuestions?
The community describes itself as: “Ask away! Disclaimer: This is an anonymous forum so answers may not be correct” Recent post titles often mention actually, feel, life, women and different. Most posts are text posts (100%).
Is r/NoStupidQuestions SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/NoStupidQuestions as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/NoStupidQuestions?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/NoStupidQuestions accepts text posts only. It has 9 posted rules, starting with: “Top level comments must contain a genuine human-written attempt at an answer”; “Please try searching the subreddit for your question first”; “Be Nice”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/NoStupidQuestions?
Communities with similar topics include r/AskReddit (60M), r/AnimalsBeingDerps (8.5M), r/askscience (26.4M), r/KidsAreFuckingStupid (5.3M) and r/AskEconomics (1.5M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 2, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/NoStupidQuestions.