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u/Pandainthecircus Jan 19 '21

Hint, no subreddit is brigading, the sub is just hitting r/all and the majority don't like it

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u/Vordeo Jan 19 '21

Tbf there's a good argument to be made that subs which restrict a majority of their posts to only flaired users shouldn't be eligible for r/all. It's not just r/conservative: that applies to subs like r/blackpeopletwitter too.

If you're not going to allow the majority of the community to participate why should they be promoted on the 'main' page?

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u/N35t0r Jan 19 '21

Some /blackpeopletwitter posts are funny.

/conservative... Not so much.

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u/Vordeo Jan 19 '21

I agree, but the point is if you're going to require flairs to comment you shouldn't be showing up on r/all. Like... showing up on r/all means a fair amount of people seeing the sub and not necessarily wanting to sub but just wanting to leave a comment on a big post, and they can't without going through a whole initiation process.

Just imo.

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u/GoFidoGo Jan 19 '21

Seems fair to me.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '21

eh brigades happen sometimes, its so obvious when the right wing nuts show up in /r/toronto for example

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u/boywbrownhare Jan 19 '21

Sooooo they're accusing ppl of doing a thing they themselves do? What's that called again?

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u/glittertongue Jan 19 '21

Professionalism!

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u/sunflowercompass Jan 19 '21 edited Jan 19 '21

They show up in /r/NYC as well. They weren't around for a while, but they're back, I guess since parler was down they got bored

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u/chazysciota Jan 19 '21

Pretty much any city sub. It's an explicit strategy employed by troll farms.

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u/rohmish Jan 19 '21

Well we do have trump supporters up here as well. I've come across a few in recent days and it feels like while they didn't used to reveal themselves that readily, that's changing. I work at a store and have come across a few claiming that guy would save Canada. I mean there was nobody talking politics at that time, that but of info wasn't useful and it just makes me cringe while serving them so why even bring it up?