So what are those results, normalized for active users?

I have no idea how to compute active users. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that the karma number meant anything, relative to each subreddit.

IMO, pro-Trump/anti-Trump news is keeping many other important topics off the front page.

No, those are absolute numbers.

/r/politics is default sub-reddit, so every user is subscribed to it unless manually opted out.

r/politics/ - 5.6M members

r/conservative/ - 275K members

r/libertarian/ - 349K members

Like I pointed out in another comment, these numbers are useless comparison if it excludes T_D. T_D had multiple threads on this with 5-6k upvotes and thousands of comments since Monday. They even had a stickied post for the entire day on Monday as well as Wednesday when Horowitz testified. Their votes and sub count are throttled so I would expect the real number to be much higher.

Two different things here. The person I replied to said that every reddit was ignoring this specific article "I searched this article on reddit". My point was to show that that specific article was covered across 37 different subreddits. My conclusion would be that this specific NYT article didn't get much traction on any subreddit, due to the lack or relative upvotes.

That said, there are dozens of FISA posts on many of the political subreddits, typically linking to others sites, not the NYT article. The T_D has been very vocal about the FISA abuses, as they should be. Apparently T_D can't link to this specific article due to subreddit specific rules. So I can't really compare this specific NYT article. Plus comparing the # of upvotes across subreddits has a lot of other issues.

IMO, this recent abuse is due to the lack of transparency in the entire FISA process. There shouldn't be secret courts ordering secret wiretaps on Americans with no oversight. The whole program should be scrapped. Tell your reps to vote it down next time.

An important context is the amount of karma the popular posts get on those subreddits (proxy for engagement size), and the up/down ratio on the specific links.

Try comparing it to T_D posts on this topic. Without that, your comparison is useless.

T_D bans linking directly to sites deemed left leaning. Instead you would post an archived version of the article. It might be difficult to do that analysis given the hoops for posting. r/politics does the same for news deemed right leaning.

You are right, T_D only allows archive versions of NYTimes. With that said, they had multiple threads on this with 5-6k upvotes and thousands of comments since Monday. They even had a stickied post for the entire day on Monday as well as Wednesday when Horowitz testified. Their votes are throttled so I would expect the real number to be much higher.

I tried searching for the article on T_D. I'm not getting any results (due to the quarantine?).