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/r/Conservative is hitting the front page almost every day now...with (relatively) low upvotes.

I wish we could see up/downvotes like in the past. I think reddit may be artificially boosting some posts into the front page. You can see in the screenshot it has very little upvotes (or older) compared to the other top 4 posts.

I have no evidence other than noticing right after the election, /r/conservative seems to be hitting the front page every day. But I remember before the election, it only hit the front page once in a blue moon or so. Is this just me? Am I the only one noticing this?

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6k comments, flaired users only? Sus.
- i don't miss those +1k comment threads, scrolling them gets annoying, also, i recused from commenting if there was already +150, otherwise was like talking to the void
  
  Its interesting that on lemmy almost everyone gets some kind of upvote/downvote (interaction) whereas on reddit and other sites, you either get viral success or...nothing. No upvotes/downvotes no interactions. My theory is the algorithm + number of people de-humanizes the act of communication in such large communities.
  
  I enjoyed the void, commenting into the void was my favorite pastime til I did it on an alt and got autopermbanned, some thread with thousands of comments and it instabanned all my alts and main account
- The flaired thing always made me laugh. Biggest babies out there. Just think of that Kyle kid crying in court
- It’s where all the ML Wumao flocked. They killed the Democratic Party, now they’re going after the republicans. They don’t care about Gaza, it’s all about starting an American civil war.
  
  I feel like the Democratic Party did a lot of this to themselves. They’ve been stepping on rakes for a while now.
  
  You think those saying the dems aren't left enough went to reddit to be conservatives???
- Lmao dude have you ever actually looked at the restrictions on the vast majority of the popular posts on /r/conservative? It’s honestly comical. They’re super locked down.
- Reeks of LLM spam
- Reddit doesn't remove removed commented from the count.
  
  I mean if they did then most conservative posts would have like 5 comments
- It always annoyed me when a post reached the front page and they limited who was allowed to comment on it. I usually didn’t even know what sub I was in until after I typed my comment and clicked submit. Followed by auto mod deleting my post.
  I forgot how much I hated that about Reddit. Good riddance.
I don't notice anything on Reddit because I never go there anymore. I swear some of y'all treating Reddit like that ex you never shut up about and keep stalking every five minutes to check if their life turned out better than yours.
Edit: My bad guys. Didn't pay attention to what community this post was in.
- Not saying your wrong lol. But this is the /c/reddit community. We are not going to go and post on reddit about this (well not anymore). And my local community is not going to remove themselves on reddit unless something pretty horrific happens. I like fediverse more (so im supporting that).
  
  Yeah well, I am here because this shit hit our front page. 🤷‍♂️
- Does it also count if you don't stalk your ex yourself but do stalk a community dedicated to stalking that exact same ex?
  I like to hear the shit that goes down there (and other sites) for multiple reasons.
  so i can discuss these ongoing enshitification with friends i know still frequent it and are not on the fediverse.
  to archive/understand/study the dynamics of enshitificication/collapse/fascist momentum so i may learn how to defend against those and if successful educate others.
  to deliver dopamine to my brain by feeding the inbuild superiority complex within my human mind. Most of us enjoy seeing our choices redeemed. Shallow and primitive yes but so is arguable 90% of social media.
- Im forced to use it whenever I google anything on anything lol, I hope to never use it again tho
- You ain't tho haha...
  We would hate to see her do her best with a trump voter
- This is the 🔥 some people here clearly still need to hear.
It's not just you. There is a coordinated effort from Big Tech to effectively take over the US Govt.
I mean, r/movies is trending higher with even less votes.
And the r/conservative post has 6000 comments like the top post, while the rest are only 4000.
Sounds to me like just another algorithm than a push towards conservatism.
Controversial post easily make front page for a while now.
- I always hated that reddit goes for roller coaste algorithim, you cant get max dopamine youll be satisfied and youll leave, instead you need the highs and lows from controversy to maximize the amount of ads we see, I was so over it when ads started showing up inbetween comments
You're better than this conspiracy crap.
They populate the front page based on views, not votes. People (like you for instance, and possibly now several people reading this thread) are increasingly visiting r/conservative right now.
edit I guess it's more correct to say that they populate the front page by various inputs, not just votes. It might be views, comments (like depedencyinjection there suggests), plus all kinds of other inputs to the algo like your own account behavior or your location and behavior of other accounts nearby and who knows.
- And numbers of comments I guess. Look at how many comments it has. Plus the Jurassic Park one above has less upvotes and less comments and is on the front page.
They are using that sub to split reddit hive mind lol
Same way they used bootlicker to split Luigi sentiment.
It ain't working haha
- Exposure does have impact, don’t kid yourself. There’s a reason ads work the way they are.
  
  You ain't wrong... A reminder to stay vigilant
  
  It also gives people a false sense of consensus and creates artificial peer pressure.
  
  Always bothered me how much control a few mods have overr the whole internet (reddits the first google result) They fr have insane amounts of influence with no one to keep them in check. Theres a reason mfs like ghislaine maxwell thrived there.
Reaction bait
It's not conspiracy.
This is what happens when you make your website amenable to conservatives. That sub has grown more popular through the years and it's thanks to its satellites like KiA and others that organized and spread conservative messaging.
And right now they're taking victory laps so of course it's got a lot of activity
Fwiw, if you use old reddit, posts have an upvote percentage (not counting any vote fuzzing). To calculate number of downvotes:
NetScore / upvote% - NetScore.
- Unfortunately reddit has fuzzed their up/downvotes for many years now. So every reload is going to get different numbers.
- this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025 9,822 points (83% upvoted)
  This is what the percentage is for this post. Posting this in case anyone is curious as to the percentage in agreement. Reddit groups that have a "flair" policy do not stop you from up or down voting a post.
  
  Then it is approx 11384 upvotes, 2012 downvotes.
Reason i went to Redit Sync because you could bloke subs and individuals or even key words. Life was more enjoyable when you could block the Leonard or conservatives.
- I do the same on mastodon. I want pictures of puppys not hearing about whatever dump/elmo are pooping on next.
NTA
I'm pretty sure the reddit algorithm tailors itself to your behavior. If you go to or click on a post from a certain sub, it'll increase how often it shows up in your feed. Downvote and it'll decrease how often it shows up. Also, it pushes posts that have a high upvote count compared to baseline for that sub instead of purely on upvote count.
- I miss when algorithms weren’t a part of everything we see.
  That’s why I’m here and not there now though. One of the many reasons.
Definitely noticed this, commenting to argue got me banned off some subs that assume commenters are conservative, reddit is slowly on its way out
The flat earthers have taken over!
I mean, there would be times where I would see posts on /r/popular with like 5-10 upvotes.
Reddit is all kinds of messed up.
Consider r/redditseppuku

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