[Timon3]

> I'm pretty skeptical of that, honestly. I think if we apply Occam, it's just that there are enough people that do feel like that.

After following that sub fairly closely in the days after big scandals on the GOP side since Jan 6th, I can personally vouch for r/conservative being incredibly controlled and propagandized.

Not only do the mods delete many even slightly critical comments by their own flaired conservative users pretty quickly, almost any thread about a scandal or gaffe that's not filled with one-sided commentary is also deleted after a few days. The last big example I remember was the tariff stuff over the last year - there were always at least three or more posts about any new announcement, and the ones with the most negative comments were gone after a few days.

I can't show you archived data since those tools stopped working due to AI scraping, but I implore you to at least follow a few negative threads and to take regular snapshots. I've never seen any other internet community that's modded so strictly without admitting to it.

Here's a post I've found recording some of this for the recent ICE murder: https://www.reddit.com/comments/1qlzhb3

And here someone analyzed the patterns of their major posters - showing that a few accounts make up most new posts: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1p1vx9n/oc...

[JCattheATM]

And yet, you can still go to any thread, find dissenting and sometimes negative opinions by users with accounts that are several years old.

I'm not claiming it's super reliable or super representative, but I do think it is representative as one point, and despite all the issues around the sub, that representation matches most other sources. Except a few polls, which I don't think count for much these days.

[Timon3]

It's as far away from representative as it can be. Again, I have not come across any comparably propagandized space anywhere else.

[JCattheATM]

> It's as far away from representative as it can be.

Nah. If that were the case, it wouldn't match conservative opinions from so many other sources.

Let me ask you something. You said you're 'from the GOP side above'. Can you rule out confirmation bias here, that you don't want to be affiliated with support of what is going on, so you're focusing on evidence that you think shows that your 'side' doesn't support it?

[estearum]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-immigration-approval...

https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-trump-slips-on-imm...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/26/polls/times-s...

[Timon3]

I never said I'm 'from the GOP side above'. Yes, I can rule out confirmation bias.

[JCattheATM]

My apologies, you talked about scandals on the GOP side.

> Yes, I can rule out confirmation bias.

How?

[Timon3]

> My apologies, you talked about scandals on the GOP side.

I don't understand how that leads you to understand that I am affiliated with them?

>> Yes, I can rule out confirmation bias.

> How?

First please explain how confirmation bias on my side would influence the amount of deleted comments and threads in that subreddit.

It somehow seems that you really want that subreddit to be representative of the average conservative. And if anyone disagrees, you throw out accusations to see what sticks. Why?