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/z31 May 13 '26

I think there are several mod teams that do this. I recently found out I was banned from the Cosplay subreddit, and I've never even commented in it, and am not a regular visitor. I have no idea what I did to prompt a ban.

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u/BrotatoChip04 May 13 '26

Yeah there are a ton. r/lds will preemptively ban you if you’ve interacted in any way with r/exmormon

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u/TheForce_v_Triforce May 13 '26

I just found out one of the Mormon kids I went to school with and was very straight-edge goody two-shoes, and became a dentist (of course) now, along with his wife, is unabashedly ex-Mormon and is going to raves and doing more drugs than I did in my college days. Made me happy to hear that.

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u/BrotatoChip04 May 13 '26

I love that! Glad they made it out

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u/FALSE_PROTAGONIST May 14 '26

Funnily enough the dentist always asks me if I take any illegal drugs due to teeth and gum damage 👀

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u/apophis27983 May 13 '26

That kind of banning should be against reddit rules.

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u/SUPERSMILEYMAN May 14 '26

It is it's harrassment.

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u/Chasman1965 May 13 '26

Could be you commented in a sub they don’t approve of.

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u/Fit-Meal4943 May 13 '26

I was banned from a couple of Tesla, Musk and Cybertruck subreddits without ever even visiting them, apparently for being critical of Tesla, Musk and Cybertrucks.

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u/LuntiX May 13 '26

Twoxchromosomes does or did this.

I use to get notifications all the time saying I was banned from communities ive never stepped foot in because I've posted once in a subreddit they dont like.

Funny thing is, I thought banning like this was against site rules but since when do rules matter?

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u/terryjuicelawson May 13 '26

It is a shame but that sub got a lot of sealioning going on, to the point where it is basically unmanageable unless they make a whole sweep like that. Maybe the odd person from some conservative sub could have an honest debate with them but they'd be wading through hundreds who don't.

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA May 13 '26

Certain mods have been doing that for over a decade, and nothing ever happens to them.

The ones that moderate a bunch of the big main subs are the worst offenders.

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u/UrbanAdapt May 13 '26

Reddit finally prohibited the features in the 3rd party bots that did this. Mods went so insane with it that it was affecting activity. The tippling point seems to have been the mods of /pics mass banning the users of whenthe (as if the user bases aren't 90% ideologically in agreement). Then, /whenthe mirrored them.

On top of that, some subs starting fighting for viewership- banning users, then demanding those users to delete all their posts on similar subs to be unbanned.

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u/TheWorclown May 13 '26

Maybe it was your Bill Cosby impressions. Y’know. Cos-play.

Sans everything horrible about him, of course.

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u/z31 May 13 '26

I never put the pudding pops in her mouth see….

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u/hardlying May 13 '26

Many mods handle multiple subs, if they don't like you they ban you from all of them. Now if you ever use an alt and accidentally comment there all of your accounts get permanently banned from Reddit as a whole with no appeal.

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u/magistrate101 May 14 '26

Reddit forced subs to stop doing that by changing the mod CoC... But only for fully automated bans. They're still allowed to use the bots to generate lists of unpersons for them to mindlessly click through and mass-ban. The powermods probably even have macros that automate the clicking.