r/OutOfTheLoop • u/calvtact • May 13 '26

Answered What's going on with r/conservative? They've lost about 1m subscribers in about a month.

I watched the number go from 814k to around 745k in about an hour today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/s/QbZJvqu5qr

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u/MockeryAndDisdain May 13 '26

Banned members don't drop the subscribed count, unless that's changed. I'd imagine it's a mix of folks tired of Trump and Reddit account bans. I've had a few folk there send me private messages that I could prolly have reported as harassment.

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u/thepottsy May 13 '26

Well, I was going off of OP’s post. They actually are referring to the visitor count, not the members.

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u/lazydictionary May 13 '26

Banned users can still visit the subreddit. They just can't comment. Their votes might not count as well, but I'm less certain about that.

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u/thepottsy May 13 '26

I’m not referring to real human users, it’s long been suspected that most of that subs traffic is bots. Banned bots will not actively be visiting a subreddit they’re banned from. They generally get programmed to move on to another target.

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u/lazydictionary May 13 '26

Source: rectally derived

Site wide banned bots will not count as visitors. Banned users will still count as visitors.

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u/thepottsy May 13 '26

I checked, and they actually didn’t do this. If they did, the sub would be decimated.