• Lvxferre@mander.xyz
    cake
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    7 hours ago

    brigading is such a weird complaint, “oh no people are engaging with my post, I actually wanted nobody to see it”

    In other situations, it is not a weird complain, because not all engagement is positive. For example organised and disruptive engagement is typically bad.

    However that engagement needs to be organised to be a brigade; you need to be able to point out where the brigaders are coming from, and why. That is simply not the case here, the mod is crying “waah brigade” when there’s none in place.

    • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      5 hours ago

      I agree, it does strikes me as something what needs to have some channel on a different platform (like a discord or other comm) to coordinate, but posting on a federated social media and being mad at negative replies from people seeing it in /all is silly.

      People will also go into comms and post provocative comments, get more of a response than expected, and spin their inbox blowing up as brigading for sympathy.