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View submission: GLORIOUS MASTERRACE HEAR ME
When we do catch folks from SRS actually engaging in brigading or doxxing, we ban them, just like any other subreddit.
I've been a bit confused about this for quite a while. What is the exact definition of brigading? Clearly, an individual following a link to a thread and voting/commenting can't be it, as that is one of the biggest ways people discover new subreddits to begin with (and doesn't seem coordinated/organized). The rules as written seem to refer to organized brigades, but what exactly is that?
If banning is the penalty, I'd like to know the rule.
Comment by bitcrunch at 19/11/2013 at 22:30 UTC*
8 upvotes, 3 direct replies
If you're disrupting other people's experiences, and doing it through a subreddit that regularly all gets together and (implicitly or explicitly) goes where they are not welcome or griefs people, that's not okay.
If you're part of a subreddit where people are talking about what other people on reddit say (typically called "meta subreddits"), it's generally considered good manners to keep your nose out of it, especially if it's not a subreddit you're involved in or if that subreddit has the opposite of your opinion.
Just let them have their subreddit, and you talk about your other opinion in a subreddit of like-minded people that share your opinion. That's just sort of "remembering the human" or "being nice."
I mean, there are exceptions - some people can enter into intelligent conversation with someone they disagree with, or give a new fact, or ask a question. But there's a huge difference between that and "raiding" or "brigading" another subreddit. The "raid" usually involves a large group upvoting something that the "home" subreddit is in opposition to, taunting, name-calling, general yo-momma comments, etc.
Not to mention that an upvote really shouldn't mean "agree" and a downvote shouldn't mean "disagree" - it's about what adds to a conversation, but that's another discussion.
edit: s/your/their