Vote Brigading
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Vote Brigading is the practice of mobilizing a campaign within an online community to promote or undermine a targeted page, user or belief en masse through the user-voting system. On Reddit, brigading is often employed as a silencing tactic by those who wish to undermine the presence of competing political agendas or opinions.

lmao

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Rent. free.

    Funnily enough, I didn’t even know I was the first one, but I somehow doubt this term became popular because of my obscure blog.

    • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      If it weren’t you it would’ve been someone else so it doesn’t matter too much. But I hope you’ve since renounced this position given that it’s only purpose is to prevent criticism, and criticism is a core of activism.

      In essence brigading is just people sharing content but with a negative reaction to it. Nobody has a problem with sharing content when the reaction is a positive one, it’s encouraged in fact.

      Anti-brigading rules is used almost entirely to suppress the marginalised and maintain the status quo in any given community. It’s entirely just “you aren’t allowed to share our content with other people if you’re sharing it with a negative reaction”.

      EDIT: Not sure if it’s referring to you or someone else since banned now hmmm. Might be misunderstanding who the post is about?

      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Brigading can also be a bad force such as a fascist movement coming in and down voting all good content, or concern trolling etc.

        I think as a term it’s useful to express the action. How to properly deal with Brigading if at all depends on who’s doing it to whom and why.

        • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Brigading can also be a bad force such as a fascist movement coming in and down voting all good content, or concern trolling etc.

          So? Then you ban them for being fascist fucks. Not sharing the content with each other.

          As a term it’s not useful because its very fucking existence enables the practice of disallowing it. What it is in practice is censorship of criticism veiled in bullshit terminology to normalise the action of preventing it.

          • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            1 year ago

            You can’t always ban your way out of a brigade and depending on the site it’s a useful way to describe the ongoing situation so as to how make the mods more vigilant for things like endless sockpuppets and concern trolling.

            • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              Yes you can. I moderate communities with millions of subscribers that are political and receive fascist brigades literally all the time. It is in fact healthier for the community to do this too. The people advocating for other methods are either lazy fuckwits or sympathise with the fash.

              • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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                1 year ago

                The people advocating for other methods are either lazy fuckwits or sympathise with the fash.

                You should tell /r/anarchism mods that then.

                • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  Want to describe exactly what their approach is? Hard to gather what you’re getting at.

                  I’ll give an example though, /r/gamingcirclejerk, where we regularly intentionally go out of our way to rile up various groups because it’s both funny and effective at manipulating the wider gaming media. Our approach is explicitly not to lock threads (cowards lock) and instead to allow the fuckwits to post. They are then banned. It takes some time for those bans to process but the community explicitly knows we will get around to every single one of them. The community is grateful and approves of this, they want them banned, they know it makes the community cleaner because alt accounts for ban evasion are a pain in the ass and getting caught by the system doing ban evasion gets all of your accounts permabanned. Trans people in particular don’t want the threads locked that rile up the transphobes, even if it means they have to see some transphobic shit, because they actually want to know that the community is properly cleared out of transphobes. Doing these proper clearouts gets you to an eventual stage where you can have a community with 1million+ subscribers and pro trans content will have tens of thousands of upvotes.

                  There is absolutely no benefit to NOT putting this kind of work in. It attracts and fosters a better crowd.

                  And when the ““brigades”” are absolutely massive because you’ve caused the entire gaming world to go crazy like when we caused that whole Harry Potter shit earlier in the year, it just ended up helping us to clear out even larger quantities of problem users. Gaming journalism, all the streamers, etc etc. We had fucking millions pour into the sub through all that shit. No problem though, just gotta work through it.

    • oregoncom [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      You’re a pathetic slime of a human being and one day you’re gonna wake up and realize you wasted your life moderating nerd forums full of braindead NPCs like you who rage about made up nerd etiquette like “brigading”. I’d tell you to touch grass but you’ve been doing this shit for so long that it’s probably too late and you’ll never learn not to be an insufferable worm.