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Found out a huge number of Reddit bans are for 'brigading' now

I was reading a report from a tech site called The Verge last week. It said that in 2023, over 40% of all subreddit bans were for 'brigading' or vote manipulation. I always figured it was mostly for hate speech or spam, but that stat really surprised me. It makes me wonder if a lot of people get caught up in it just for posting in a thread someone else linked to. Has anyone here been banned for brigading when you didn't even know you were doing it?
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lopez.brooke
Honestly, that stat seems off to me. I've seen way more subs get nuked for hateful stuff than for brigading. Maybe they're just calling everything brigading now.
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wood.john
wood.john14h ago
Yeah, and like @lopez.brooke said, if they call everything brigading, it just makes the whole rule feel kinda pointless, you know?
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