[hilios]

/r/conservative doesn't even allow comments of users without a user flair.

They state: "This is designed so that a couple posts per day are almost guaranteed to have conversation which is not hijacked by leftists and other non-conservatives.Who Gets Flair?

Only mods can assign User Flair, and User Flair is only for conservatives. Once you have a solid history of comments in /r/Conservative, and have been commenting in the subreddit for at least two weeks,[..]

Please understand that this is for conservatives. We do our best to vet you based on your post history on reddit. You will need some post history to qualify - ideally within the subreddit itself. If you do not have a conservative leaning post history you will likely be asked to re-apply when you do."

"Strangely" there isn't a single post on their frontpage at the moment, which doesn't require a flair to comment.

[user34283]

You're not a conservative.

Why are you so concerned about participation criteria for the conservative subreddit, one of the only distinctly right wing places on the whole platform?

[63stack]

The way HN and public forums work is that people can ask questions and others can answer. The post you are replying to is an answer to a question. You need to scroll a bit up to see the original question.

[jghn]

Part of the problem is the mods' narrow definition of "conservative". And this is the larger point of this entire comment thread. There are plenty of people with traditional conservative values who are not welcome in r/conservative. Not to mention, over time the tent has been shrinking as well.

Which, to be fair, is not unlike how the GOP has been operating over the last few years.

[Aurornis]

The /r/conservative subreddit is unpopular among actual conservatives because it’s basically a propaganda outlet for the mods.

You can get banned for posting traditional conservative opinions there if they go against the message the mods want to allow, even if it’s conservative.

Don’t be tricked into thinking it’s some conservative safe space. It’s a propaganda outlet for the mods who ban even conservatives if they don’t toe the line and agree with the mods.

[queenkjuul]

How do you know their beliefs?