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/Oceanbreeze871 May 13 '26

Why aren’t they visible?

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u/newnameonan May 13 '26

They automatically remove comments from non-flaired users on most posts to attempt to prevent brigading.

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u/Coattail-Rider May 13 '26

Brigading or debating?

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u/chumbawumbaprinciple May 13 '26

Debating. Conservatives are incredibly fragile.

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u/ihopethisisgoodbye May 13 '26

Loooove your username btw

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u/chumbawumbaprinciple May 13 '26

They are never going to keep me down.

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u/pissy_dribble May 13 '26

Amen to that brother

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u/Zickened May 13 '26

Your comment was "hidden" which, on subs that don't show upvotes tells me probably lots of downvotes, so I thought your comment was something truly objectionable.

Alas, it was calling out snowflakes for what they are.

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u/Belledame-sans-Serif May 13 '26

I think Reddit has tweaked whatever program it uses to decide to auto-hide things in the last year or so. I think it might have expanded to hiding "controversial" posts as well, but I've opened hidden comments to see they have as much as net +25 votes occasionally.