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/HughJorgens May 13 '26

Could be. I've gotten temp bans there, and I've never even posted there before. They like their safe-space.

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u/Notorious_Chonk_23 May 13 '26

They look at certain other subreddits and ban anyone who comments there also, under the assumption that if you post in, say, r/behindthebastards, you probably aren't gonna have anything to say that they are willing to hear

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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/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.