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Brigaded? Or downvoted by a number of people who saw it and recognized that it contained an specious accusation? As I understand brigading, it involves calls f

Brigaded? Or downvoted by a number of people who saw it and recognized that it contained an specious accusation? As I understand brigading, it involves calls from outside for people to come in, which I don't think it happening here at all.

xeromal 4y ago
Why do they need to downvote it. I'd just let it be.
- pwinnski 4y ago
  If I post a comment suggesting that xeromal's distaste for downvoting is because they have a tendency to post low-effort comments and generally not contribute to healthy conversation, would you just let that be, too? Perhaps you would, but many people might expect an accusation they consider untrue to be worth downvoting. This is an Ask HN. People are generally expected to upvote accurate answers and downvote inaccurate answers. An answer which includes false accusations of brigading, praises Musk as brilliant, and suggests that all dissension is due to politics is unhelpful, inaccurate, and worth downvoting. As I said before, I'd have downvoted it myself, but it was already sufficiently downvoted.
  - xeromal 4y ago
    I'd agree with you generally, but I think in the spirit of this very specific discussion we're on, downvoting any comments that goes against the status quo seems disingenuous. It's like those unpopular opinion questions on reddit. Someone actually posts one and they are downvoted.
    - lostgame 4y ago
      Can you assert why this conversation is an exception, and what some of the guidelines of the standard for exceptions would be?
incomingpain 4y ago
>As I understand brigading, it involves calls from outside for people to come in, which I don't think it happening here at all. Here's 3 pretty good definitions, so you can understand me better. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brigading https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brigading Basically, the anti-elon crowd is manipulating the discussion on HN through mass downvoting and flagging of anyone they disagree with. The goal is to leave the appearance everyone hates Musk. In terms of the 'outside or off HN" organization, there is a separate word for that but I can't remember it. Something to do with 'raiding' but this doesn't matter.

xeromal 4y ago

Why do they need to downvote it. I'd just let it be.

pwinnski 4y ago
If I post a comment suggesting that xeromal's distaste for downvoting is because they have a tendency to post low-effort comments and generally not contribute to healthy conversation, would you just let that be, too? Perhaps you would, but many people might expect an accusation they consider untrue to be worth downvoting. This is an Ask HN. People are generally expected to upvote accurate answers and downvote inaccurate answers. An answer which includes false accusations of brigading, praises Musk as brilliant, and suggests that all dissension is due to politics is unhelpful, inaccurate, and worth downvoting. As I said before, I'd have downvoted it myself, but it was already sufficiently downvoted.
- xeromal 4y ago
  I'd agree with you generally, but I think in the spirit of this very specific discussion we're on, downvoting any comments that goes against the status quo seems disingenuous. It's like those unpopular opinion questions on reddit. Someone actually posts one and they are downvoted.
  - lostgame 4y ago
    Can you assert why this conversation is an exception, and what some of the guidelines of the standard for exceptions would be?

incomingpain 4y ago

>As I understand brigading, it involves calls from outside for people to come in, which I don't think it happening here at all. Here's 3 pretty good definitions, so you can understand me better. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brigading https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brigading Basically, the anti-elon crowd is manipulating the discussion on HN through mass downvoting and flagging of anyone they disagree with. The goal is to leave the appearance everyone hates Musk. In terms of the 'outside or off HN" organization, there is a separate word for that but I can't remember it. Something to do with 'raiding' but this doesn't matter.