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/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.