First chart: Since October 3rd, two users (u1 and u2) have daily been responsible for 30% - 50% of all posts on Conservative.

Second chart: Breakdown of the the most active user's external links.

Third chart: Since October 3rd, only 5 users account for 50% of all posts.

Fourth chart: Since October 3rd, the 2 most frequent posters have accounted for 37% of all posts. This image shows the number of users that are needed to account for 37% of all posts in 5 similar subs: Libertarian, democrats, AnythingGoesNews, socialism, and politics. The higher the number, the more diverse the pool of posters is.

To account for 50% of all posts, here are the results:

Conclusion from the fourth image - Conservative is dominated by a minority of posters in a way that isn't comparable to the other 5 political subs. However, there are also still a LOT of active unique posters in Conservative and that diversity is better reflected when the top 2 users aren't accounted for.

Fifth chart: The only day the two most active users in Conservative didn't post was November 1st, which happened to be the day of a power outage in Moscow that was the result of a Ukranian drone attack.

(Edit: this fifth chart has been updated due to an incorrect timezone shift calc)

Sixth chart: The obvious question here - "How much of Conservative's posting was impacted during the time of the power outage?" The outage was from Friday 11pm to Saturday 7am. My approach for this was to count the number of posts within that window from other weeks and exclude u1's and u2's activity. This should theoretically set an expectation for how many posts to expect during that window. Yes, that time frame has the fewest number of posts (10) of any of the 7 windows that I looked at, but also, it's just not that much of a drop. Compared to the number of posts during the 2nd and 3rd time frames (13 and 12, respectively), During the outage, there was below average activity but not so much as to raise suspicions, especially since the same number of posts were made during that window during a previous week without an outage. I'm just not personally seeing that the power outage reveals much here. u1 and u2 likely use a scheduler anyway which would obfuscate the whole thing anyway, and I would expect a scheduler to be pretty standard for any decent troll farm so even if others on that sub are posting from Russia, it wouldn't necessarily show in the data unless they're being sloppy.

However, the question remains, why did the two most prolific posters on that sub suddenly go silent on November 1st?

(Edit: this sixth chart has also been updated due to an incorrect timezone shift calc)

Source: Reddit JSON endpoint access. Oct 3, 2025 to Nov 17, 2025.