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View submission: Announcing the Crowd Control Beta
This is the kind of communication I recall from the alpha:
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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
Comment by redtaboo at 10/12/2019 at 20:36 UTC
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it's a karma/age filter type solution that may help counter brigades.
Just for a bit more clarity, it's not only keyed to those two things. Crowd Control looks at a few other conditions as well, depending on the strictness level set by moderators - and we're not done working on this! This is still beta so we'll be pulling in more feedback as more communities try this out, we actually hope this will make things better for new users since mods can reverse the collapse when needed.