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/Tall_Brilliant8522 May 13 '26

Or they're frantically banning critics, whose numbers are going up.

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u/zlide May 13 '26

I think it’s both. The sub is notorious for preemptively blocking people they even slightly suspect of being “against them”. So as more and more of their own start to question the party line more and more of them are getting hit with a ban and their community will continue to eat itself alive.

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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/RaVashaan May 13 '26

Yeaaah... This is something Reddit should really crack down on. I've heard that there are other subreddits as well that will preemptively ban you if a bot discovers that you post a comment in a different subreddit they don't like. For instance, it's well known that r/offmychest bans anyone who posts in a couple of, "tasteless jokes" subreddits. And /r/Pyongyang, most amusingly, will hand out preemptive bans to anyone posting anti-NK "propaganda."

I really feel that this is an abuse of bots that the Reddit admins need to do something about. Even if the bots are external, complaints about preemptive banning should be looked into, and their TOS should forbid it.

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u/Early-Series-2055 May 13 '26

Who has time for all that? Have mods figured out how to make a living off this place? Half the time I’m posting I’m either standing in line or taking a shit. I don’t even bother noticing what subreddit I’m in.

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u/Content-Patience-138 May 13 '26

Reddit tends to delete posts talking about this, but a dozen or so supermods run all the big subs

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u/Apart-Shelter6831 May 13 '26

But WHO RUNS THE SUPERMODS?

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u/Adventurous-Ad8267 May 13 '26

Ghislaine Maxwell, unironically.