>A sudden, sharp influx of users presenting behavior and opinions leaning in a specific direction that was previously much less represented
>“DUrR yoU jUSt DoNT LikE iT”
I saw enough r/nonewnornal brigades back in 2020 to have an idea. A harshly different upvote/downvote ratio along opinion lines between the post itself and the comments is a very good indicator.
Saw plenty of apologist/sockpuppet comments like yours back then, too. May have seen this one almost ver batim, in fact.
It’s brigading when you don’t like their opinion.
>A sudden, sharp influx of users presenting behavior and opinions leaning in a specific direction that was previously much less represented
>“DUrR yoU jUSt DoNT LikE iT”
I saw enough r/nonewnornal brigades back in 2020 to have an idea. A harshly different upvote/downvote ratio along opinion lines between the post itself and the comments is a very good indicator.
Saw plenty of apologist/sockpuppet comments like yours back then, too. May have seen this one almost ver batim, in fact.