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What's wrong with brigading? That's also a form of engagement.
by Hermel 5y ago
What's wrong with brigading? That's also a form of engagement.
- pvarangot 5y agoBased on my experience bringing this up in person and online to various Reddit mods (which usually get pretty upset about the question) the main problem with brigading is that the side that victimizes itself as getting brigaded doesn't enjoy the experience. They operate under the theory that most people on online communities just want to discover other people with whom they would get along, and do it in a safe manner kinda isolated from people with whom they would not get along. The problem is when your online community decides political propaganda or marketing stuff is ok because you agree to participate in a "cultural battle", so you will need to make splitting decisions like who's the brigands and who's being brigaded.
- llbeansandrice 5y agoIt can easily ruin a community. If you start a group centered around, idk, using VSCode. Nice plug-ins to have. The roadmap of the software. Answering questions and helping folks use the software well, etc. But your community gets raided by the IntelliJ community so that the only discussions are about how VSCode is awful, everyone should use IntelliJ. Why even discuss the roadmap of this stupid not-even-an-IDE? Use IntelliJ. Anywhere the VSCode community tries to go, it just gets followed by IntelliJ zealots.