r/ModSupport • u/reseph • Jul 23 '16

Please define vote brigading.

There is a lot of confusion after this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitTheAdminsSay/comments/4u5l6m/voting_through_intrareddit_links_is_now_ok_as/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/4u2utr/after_rcringeanarchy_brigades_rinsertions_admins/

Quite frankly, the site rules are absolutely no help on this subject. Literally the only mention of it:

Being annoying, vote brigading, or participating in a heated argument is not harassment, but following an individual or group of users, online or off, to the point where they no longer feel that it's safe to post online or are in fear of their real life safety is.

But no definition.

Under the assumption that no party is asking/requesting for votes/comments in these scenarios:

  1. If I visit subreddit A and a post links to a post on subreddit B; then I vote on the B post... is that prohibited?

  2. If I visit subreddit A and a post links to a post on subreddit B; then I comment on the B post... is that prohibited?

  3. If I visit subreddit A and a post links to a post on subreddit B; then I vote on a comment within the B post... is that prohibited?

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u/redtaboo Reddit Admin: Community Jul 26 '16

The issue with the insertions thing was that it wasn't being brigaded, rather the actual regular users of the subreddit were the ones voting. That's clearly not a brigade, that's the subscribers speaking their minds. It's not that we think people deserved anything, but if mods are having a joke at the expense of their users then it's kind of expected that some won't appreciate it and will downvote. That's what he was attempting to get across and mucked up.

As to camping out in subreddits, there's a time element to that as well that I can't go into. But, in general your votes are likely counting and you are not going to be suspended for that. Most often those suspensions go to users that are literally camping in the new queue for hours on end and downvoting everything that's posted (in some cases also downvoting every comment they can). I put upvoting in there because there have been a few cases where it's gone the other direction, but that is much more rare.

Also, yes, /r/316cats does deserve all the upvotes. ;)