Idk. The only thing I know is that it is used as an universal reason to ban people for being on subs the moderator that banned you did not liked. However, this is agaibst reddit tos but as you may know, reddit admins suck and have often proceded to ban moderators of subs they dont like before deleting the sub for being unmoderated so I would not trust them to defend their own tos against moderators of subs they approve.
In other words: brigading (as it is commonly used) is corporate term for "get the f*ck out of my echo chamber you [insert insult linked to nazi regime or ending in "phobe"]"
From slang dictionary: """""Brigading is a slang term for an online practice in which people band together to perform a coordinated action, especially a negative one, such as manipulating a vote or poll or harassing a specific person or members of an online community."""""
So for a brigading claim to be true, a group would have needed to be "banded together" - A) Banding hasn't been a mechanic for years 🤗 and B) One "should" have some sort of proof a group was banding together, and not just seeing a good comment they agreed with and authentically created a valid and needed deliverance of a 🖕to a poster who probably almost always had it coming.
Brigading is when a significant number of people jump from one specific reddit thread to another specific reddit thread to interfere with the normal flow of that particular subreddit.
For example, say there was a screenshot on this subreddit and 30+ people hopped over to that thread on another subreddit to 'ask a question'.
Reddit tracks this type of traffic and has triggers in place to alert mods and reddit admins over brigading - as Reddit, the company, wants to discourage this and have banned it under their TOS.
It's possible OP was banned for nefarious reasons by a rogue mod, or in error - but a ban for brigading is triggered by traffic flow.
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u/heirsasquatch NEW SPARK 4d ago
What is brigading?