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View submission: Announcing the Crowd Control Beta
Ah, okay. At least when it's out of beta, I think there should be some indication of *why* posts are auto-collapsed, so that it's transparent and not just seen as "silent censorship". It also lets people make the informed decision to uncollapse a comment, and maybe even upvote it if it's a worthwhile comment and not just brigading/trolling by a new account.
Comment by MajorParadox at 10/12/2019 at 20:29 UTC
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This is the kind of communication I recall from the alpha:
Why is this comment collapsed? It has positive karma
It's a new anti-brigading tool the mods are using
Oh, this user is brigading, go away!
It's not really built as an anti-brigading tool, it's a karma/age filter type solution that may help counter brigades. But it will still apply to normal, new users to the community who people disagree with or are targets of downvotes for no reason (especially during a brigade where the brigaders would be upvoting the brigading users and downvoting others).
It just seems leaving it vague will let it play out like that more. Has there been any investigation into whether that kind of thing happened in the alpha?
New users suffer enough in the quest to keep subs under control (some subs straight automod them without even filtering for review). I'd hate for it to get worse for them.
+ u/jkohhey