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View submission: GLORIOUS MASTERRACE HEAR ME
Thousands brigading or thousands doxxing? While both are of course against the rules, doxxing is much more serious.
I'm sadden there are so many in our ranks who would stoop to such deplorable acts, unfit for the true followers of GabeN :(
Comment by cupcake1713 at 19/11/2013 at 20:54 UTC
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Thousands brigading, thankfully not thousands doxxing! The latter certainly is more serious and is dealt with accordingly when it is brought to our attention.
The brigading to the degree that it was coming from /r/pcmasterrace was really bad, though. I've sent this explanation to a few users in the past, but I feel like it's a pretty good analogy for what brigading is like: *Imagine you're just hanging out with your friends at your house. All of a sudden, some douchebag you hate barges in and brings HUNDREDS of his friends with him to trash your house. You probably would be pretty pissed, yeah? That's what a brigade is like. You're flooding hundreds of users who wouldn't normally be in a subreddit in there, you're interrupting a conversation that other users (who, presumably, are in their "safe place" on reddit) are having, and you're completely changing the culture of a subreddit. That breaks rule #5[1] on the site, "don't do anything that interferes with normal use of the site."*
1: http://www.reddit.com/rules
Comment by jonnywoh at 19/11/2013 at 21:00 UTC
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Pretty sure he's referring to brigading