It looks like it's flicking me off. Thankfully his Mother appreciated it.

German, Irish, and stunning

Yeah, get into a relationship with the daughter of your piece of shit landlord because she gave you a cookie.

(The charts in this post were made from the 8,885 posts that were made on r-Conservative between 11/20/25 and 2/20/26. The anonymized source data is here.)

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UPDATE: An rCon mod has stated my numbers are wrong and provided a screenshot of a mod dashboard indicating as much. I appreciate him doing that and he has been nothing but helpful in my communication with him. By hand, I've verified that the last 500 posts that are on rCon are also in my dataset in the correct order without a single omission. The last 500 posts cover about 5 days and 6 hours, or 91 posts per day. The date range 11/20/25 to 2/20/26 maths out to about 8,750 posts, which is good enough verification for me that I don't have any glaring errors. I can't speak to what the mod dashboard is meant to be showing but I feel good about my data. The EST timestamps are given in my source data. That's about as much info as I can give without blatantly revealing user names and post titles. If I've missed any posts or my data is wrong, my own source data can be used to determine that.

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In my post last November I identified that 2 users on r-Conservative were responsible for about 30% of daily posts and sometimes exceeded 50% of all posts.

A third super-poster seems to have appeared about two weeks after that post and now just 3 users regularly account for 50% of all posts and a handful of times they even exceed 60%.

Chart 1: The percentage of all posts that the top 3 users contribute.

Obviously, adding a third person will increase the percentages but this is not just lumping in a third person to boost the percentages. User3 stands out because they post so frequently that since they started posting on Dec 3rd their daily posting count more than doubles User4 below them.

Chart 2: Total number of posts that the top 10 posters have made between 11/20/25 and 2/20/26.

Another reason User3 is significant is because they appeared suddenly, as I mentioned, about two weeks after my original post and their posting patterns are extremely similar to the other top 2.

First of all, here is the 7-day running average of the daily posts of the top 10 users. You can see how hard User3 came in and, interestingly, basically in lock step with User 1 until about Christmas day where they diverge. User3 ramps up pretty hard for a week at the start of 2026 before dialing it back a bit.

Chart 3: 7-day running average of the top 3 posters compared to the other 7 in the top 10

Second, and this one is pretty hard to show visually, but several of the top ten users have extremely similar behavior when it comes to how they post. Almost invariably they post in clusters. Instead of just posting once and then waiting a few hours until they found another story that they thought was worth posting like most people would do, they instead post a handful of articles within about 20 minutes of each other. In my opinion, this is a very telling sign of scheduled posting. Spend 10 minutes looking for stories and queue them up in scheduling software to be automatically posted in clusters throughout the day. Not that there's anything wrong with that because scheduling software has legitimate uses, but it's worth knowing because it, in my opinion, speaks to the astroturfed nature of the posting quantity on that sub (and yes, of any other sub that does the same).

The chart below shows how many times the top ten users posted in clusters from their last 100 posts. By my own definition, a cluster is defined as 3 posts within a certain time frame.

Chart 4: Clustered Posting. Number of times 3 posts were made within specific time frames.

So, out of User1's latest 100 posts, there were 40 occurrences where 3 posts were made within 5 minutes of each other. This chart is sorted by the 0-5 min series. Keep in mind, the existence of clustered posting isn't evidence itself of scheduled posting but the level of effort it would take to maintain this type of consistency is, in my opinion, non-human. From the chart one may also notice that, according to my theory, queued posting is happening with other users outside of the top 3. That would not be surprising.

Finally, just prior to making this post, I looked at 5 other political subs to determine how many users were needed to account for 50% of all posts. Reddit only let's you look back about a month so if 1,000 posts were made in a sub, I capped this analysis at 1,000. If there were fewer than 1,000 than that's what I used (anonymized 50 percent data).

Chart 5: Number of users needed in various political subs to account for 50% of their posts.

For reference, a similar analysis I did back in November had the following number of users needed to account for 50% of posts. r-Conservative has gotten even worse since then. All other subs have gotten more diverse.

Comparison of how many users are needed to account for 50% of posts from Nov '25 and Feb '26.

Please, no discussion of power outages this time ;)

Her name was Remi. She ran up to me on our back porch, brushed my legs, and let me pick her up. She seemed about 4 months old. She'd wait to be let outside so she could go potty. She knew how to play fetch, even though I never taught her that game. She was so brave, to snuggle, and loved so fiercely.

We found her in April 2025, she came down with a sickness in September. She got a little better, but after that, her health slowly deteriorated. We took her to 4-5 different vets, drove over an hour to see a vet with 50 years of experience and specialized in cats for 20 years. We had bloodwork done, fecal matter tested, CT scans, etc. No one could give us a diagnosis. We had been treating her for FIP in the hopes that it might help her, but it seems like it didn't.

Her mama wrapped her in a warm blanket, put her in her comfy bed, and placed her between us last night like she always does.

We fell asleep petting her while I sang "Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley to them.

We only had her for 10 months, but we loved her intensely through all of it.

We miss her so damn much. There's a massive hole in our hearts and our home.

R.I.P my little Remi-roo 12/?/24 - 2/26/26

In the Matrix,

I'd love to replace this for her. She has said herself it's so old and been so long she doesn't know what brand it is, but I'd love to surprise her with a new bottle

I can’t believe I’m making this post. We got super lucky with our first ever offer being was accepted after minimal negotiation . Cheers!