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What kinds of things from reddit would you like to see Lemmy avoid as the user base grows? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by gronapa@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Personally I think not having karma limits is nice currently! I understand why they were used but grinding karma as a lurker on reddit was frustrating.

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[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brigading

Top three replies:

A concentrated effort by one online group to manipulate another. (e.g. by mass commenting)

When people from one group, organization, fandom, forum, server, etc. aggressively infiltrates, usually spontaneously, a rival forum, server, or stream; negative criticism is usually given to the victim of a brigade (the event itself sometimes being called a raid), with insults and counter-signaling common. Usually used in the past participle ("brigaded"). Brigades can be done in good humor, but are usually antagonistic in nature.

Brigading is an online harassment tactic where a group of people rally against an individual (or occasionally against a small group of people) in a coordinated, sustained and organized way.

[–] Derproid 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So wait if I post a link on here and a bunch of people go there and comment wouldn't that be brigading? So basically this entire platform can be considered as designed to brigade other websites?

[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If that happens with malicious intent, yes. If it's just advertising, a friendly visit or an otherwise civil exchange of opinions, no.

[–] Derproid 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How can we determine malicious intent?

If a bunch of people go to have a discussion and one person says "Hey we should mess with them" is the whole group considered malicious?

On the flip side if a bunch of people go and comment maliciously but it's never explicit is it fair to just assign malicious intent to them?

[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 1 points 1 year ago

How can we determine malicious intent?

It's social interactions, not science. People form opinions.

People may falsly assume they're being brigaded, and there may be confusion around the term and the limits. Which in turn can be used by brigading groups to conceal their efforts.

Anyways, I hope I could help answer some of your questions.