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View submission: GLORIOUS MASTERRACE HEAR ME
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 DRowe13 at 19/11/2013 at 21:24 UTC
19 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I understand Brigading is bad, and I agree, it shouldn't be tolerated.
But I don't udnerstand why the FUCK SRS hasn't been banned already, they are basically there simply to brigade, and way more toxic than almost any other subreddit. Doesn't make any sense...
Comment by [deleted] at 19/11/2013 at 21:26 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
In regard to rule 5. I have wanted to know for years how come SRS is still up. If you do not reply I will assume preferential treatment and be proven right with hundreds if not thousands of examples to choose from where they brigade a user.
If you let them stay up then you are an obvious hypocrite.
(PS I agree with much of what they say such as the blatant homofobia, racism and sexism on reddit(although they can be extreme) and would enjoy the subbreddit immensely if it was purely pictures with names blacked out).
Again please tell me why this and other subbreddits practically designed to brigade are left up.
Comment by socsa at 19/11/2013 at 21:33 UTC
4 upvotes, 1 direct replies
"Brigading" requires organization and premeditation. There was no post saying "lol, go downvote everything on gaming." Rather, what you saw was an organic response to overzealous moderation, the same response which has been repeated over and over and over and over again in various internet communities over the past decade. The argument of "brigading" is the "think of the children" argument of the internet - it is irrelevant, never actually happens, and pisses people off even more. If reddit really cared about "brigading" they would ban subs like SRS, which is literally nothing more than a place to post things you want downvoted.
No, this had nothing to do with brigading, and everything to do with childish mods getting their wittle feelwing hurted, and banning an entire sub out of spite.
Once again - I'll just add this to my list of moderator over-reach which is killing reddit before our very eyes. So thanks for that.
Comment by [deleted] at 19/11/2013 at 21:24 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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Comment by ElBurrow at 19/11/2013 at 21:31 UTC
-3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Why isnt SRS banned for doxxing? and Why is this a question that you will never answer?
Comment by [deleted] at 19/11/2013 at 22:05 UTC
0 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Pretty disingenuous to call any place on reddit a "safe place" when you guys will just up and ban it for pretty much arbitrary reasons, wouldn't you say?
I'd never heard of "srs" before but at a glance it appears to be nothing BUT brigading. Every topic is a link to some comment in a completely unrelated discussion, complete with the number of upvotes that the targeted comment has. Why is that not sufficiently against the rules?
I'm not posturing here, this is a serious question from an extremely casual reddit late-comer who is forming an increasingly unfavorable view of the powers-that-be.
Comment by [deleted] at 21/11/2013 at 03:37 UTC
-12 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Please explain to me how /r/conspiratard is allowed to constantly invade /r/conspiracy without repercussion.
I've messaged the admins on several occasions and never received a response.
Earlier today they even stalked me into another subreddit and dragged all their metadrama into there.
They are very clearly altering the community. /u/bipolarbear0 even admitted to using sockpuppets to post blatantly antisemitic trash in my sub, he shared the links in an off site IRC which I have screen shots of and pushes this stuff to our front page.
Are certain subreddits like /r/conspiracy just too out there for the admins to help?
Are we just to be left at the mercy of organized thuggery?
Why won't any of the admins guide me with this problem?
Comment by Highspeed_Lowdrag at 20/11/2013 at 01:01 UTC
-3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Yet you allow SRS to do so.