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submitted 18 hours ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Wtf is “vote brigading”?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

When one community goes in mass to affect the votes in another. E.g someone is doing a poll/vote intended to be private or limited to a certain group/community, and you link that to from somewhere else with the hope, or sometimes direct instructions to go vote on it in a certain way.

That's why reddit has cross-posts and the np (no participation, disables voting in the linked content) subdomain that try to keep the votes separated.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

When one community goes in mass

Slightly off-topic, but it’s en masse, not “in mass”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 25 minutes ago

English is my third language, it's hard to remember which parts of it belong to a fourth one and shouldn't be translated (because "en masse" is literally French for "in mass")

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t think i ever came across cross posted content where up/down voting was not allowed 🤔

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

If you cross-post, that sub gets it's own up/downvote count. You would have to open the link and go to the original post to see and affect them, so it already discourages brigading.

NP is when I link you directly to somewhere, e.g https://np.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1j4scuu/barbie_doll/ won't have voting even if you are logged in, not on the post or the comments.

[–] werefreeatlast 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah what the heck is that?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Agreeing with something the owners don't like.

[–] werefreeatlast 3 points 6 hours ago

Well that's just screwed up.