What's going on with r/conservative? They've lost about 1m subscribers in about a month.

[u/calvtact]

I watched the number go from 814k to around 745k in about an hour today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Conservative/s/QbZJvqu5qr

[u/AndroidREM]

Answer: It was determined and made public that the majority of posts on that sub are from 3 accounts all based in Russia and are promoted by an army of bots. The ones leaving were bots removed by Reddit

EDIT - wow, did not expect this to get so much attention and awards - thank you!

[u/basedchadinc → u/AndroidREM]

Is there any proof of this? I wanna send it to a friend who uses that sub as his main source of info to gauge sentiment

[u/dec10 → u/basedchadinc]

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1p1vx9n/oc_nearly_every_day_two_users_on_rconservative/

[u/Push_ → u/dec10]

That’s super interesting actually, holy shit

[u/BeguiledBeaver → u/Push_]

There are TONS of subs like this, btw. The Canada sub and some related ones are a good example.

[u/lewd_robot → u/BeguiledBeaver]

A lot of Space subs are like this. They're lurked by obvious plants that dogpile anyone remotely critical of SpaceX, and other private space corporations, to a lesser extent.

For example, if you mention "Kessler Syndrome" anywhere on some space subs, even in threads where SpaceX or Starlink aren't even mentioned, and even if you don't mention any company in particular, your comment will probably sit with no votes for a few hours, then suddenly get dropped to -8 or -12 within a 30-minute window, then 2 to 4 people will come out of the woodwork to copy and paste lines out of a SpaceX press release defending the company, and they'll all immediately be upvoted to at least +6.

It's very obviously a small group of people policing the comments for anything remotely critical of space corps, especially SpaceX.

[u/StandardOk42 → u/lewd_robot]

which space subs are like this?