- Click on the big button in the header next to ‘Local’ that says ‘All’.
- Click the drop-down field directly next to ‘All’.
- Click ‘Active’ from the drop-down list.
- Click on a thread loaded on the page.
- Reply to users in that thread.
Congrats! You have successfully done a brigading! Pat yourself on the back! Next seminar, we will be covering how to subtly deceive strategically-important redditors with a simple tactic they don’t know of called ‘whataboutism’ 
Edit: meant to post this in the secret group chat where we coordinate the fall of the west. Sorry y’all. My bad 
Don’t make me tap the sign
spoiler
Brigading is something that Redditors think is real unlike the age of consent which they do not believe in
Is this a meme I don’t get or?
no, it’s just pointing out that most
posters are 
Joke’s on you’ll I browse the mod log for posts to dogpile
me and my friends on the way to brigade another thread
no more half measures walter
Brigading is when leftists post and the better their politics the more brigading it is.
— “It’s not brigading, Harry! It’s simply inciting a conversation! There’s nothing that says we can’t all engage in a simple little conversation, is there?”
[Hard: Success] — He’s right. There was a rule against it, back in your old haunt; but here is not there.
— “There’s nothing stopping us from banning you for brigading, anyway.” — “Oh, don’t be an asshole, Harry. You’re a good man, and you’re certainly not an asshole. Besides, while your mod powers are still missing, I don’t believe you’ll be able to ban anybody. Now, if you’d like to take this conversation a little more seriously, I’d be more than happy to assist you in locating that banhammer of yours again.”You’re one of our most powerful posters
:tequila-sunset: Mister Evrart is helping me find my :ban-hammer:
:tequila-sunset: Mister Evrart is helping me find my :ban-hammer:
:tequila-sunset: Mister Evrart is helping me find my :ban-hammer:
how did you get voice actors to read a hexbear post
- - “You’re not an ultra-troll, Harry. Get the fuck out of here.”
i almost never switch off local
I think I am happy to be out of the loop
Every thread that involves Ukraine, China, Africa or the Middle East that reaches /all/ inevitably results in a million liberals complaining that Hexbear users are brigading it because we say things in those threads that they don’t agree with and that makes them seethe therefore we must be coordinating it.
A lot of people don’t seem to understand that because every instance on lemmy is federated to different instances, everyone’s /all/ page is different. This means that when a thread shows up on /all/ for any given instance the users from that instance all show up at the same time. This ends up looking like some coordinated explosion of Hexbears but really it just means it reached top of /all/ for us.
tl:dr: Libs don’t like what socialists say therefore it’s all a sinister plot by russian bots.
God I hate whataboutism. Because no really what about it? Why are you comfortable taking such blatantly hypocrytical stances arrrrg. It just seems like a way to ignore valid critiques
I can’t find it, but a few years ago a user here did an effortpost showing how whataboutism was first used by the British to silence claims of wrongdoing in Ireland, and then quickly adopted and propagated by the CIA as a way to obfuscate discussion.
Whataboutism
Not listening to this instances podcast
About a week ago on Hexbear someone was saying China was good, and I said it’s not good if you’re queer. They replied that America is even worse. To which I said, “I know, I’m trying to get my trans partner out of there so it isn’t holocausted. China and America aren’t the only two countries. Why do you think America is important to this discussion?”
I think that’s what whataboutism should refer to. When someone tries to excuse bad behaviour through comparison to an irrelevant third thing. I see it all the time in Australia from climate apathiers who say “We shouldn’t try to reduce our emissions because China won’t”. I always tell them “we’re doing worse per capita than China is. And even if we weren’t, wouldn’t you want our country to be a global leader in something?”
When a lemmy thread is put in the dunktank and people go to the thread from the post in the dunktank even if it isn’t linked it still is brigading, it’s brigading when the tankiejerk places do it to lemmygrad too, it’s funneling people into a thread that they only saw because it was posted in the dunktank. If that isn’t brigading then nothing is brigading.
It’s disengenious to try to spin it as people only finding stuff in the all tab, because people do jump into the threads they see in the dunktank and that definitely hasn’t contributed to making any goodwill for this site among other instances, if the person deserves to be dunked on people will find it they dont need a giant bat signal post in the dunktank to figure it out.
I do think most of the people put in there deserve it on some level, but you guys are speedrunning every other user to instance ban hexbear whenever that comes out.
Fundamentally disagree. Brigading, as originally conceived by reddit, is an organized raid of one forum by another. Posting a screenshot to the_dunk_tank with a link is not organization. There is no call to action, it’s just naming and shaming. If the user featured in the screenshot said something reprehensible, then they shouldn’t be surprised if it spurs others to relentlessly mock and bully them. But when that happens, it’s absolutely not a unified effort, nor is it targeting the forum as a whole.
That’s just a consequence of saying reactionary shit in a public setting in full view of people who tend to be hurt by reactionary rhetoric. This isn’t violence, there are no real threats being made. Everyone is totally free to continue to say whatever they want in accordance with the rules of their home instance. But if you voice your opinion in public, it’s rather hypocritical to get pissed about others voicing their own opinions back.
“Brigading” is a delusion constructed by users of reddit, the lowest form of human slop to exist. This is not
we’re pretty cool if you’re not a ghoul tbh
I don’t disagree, but posting another lemmy post as a post in thedunktank is literally the definition of “brigading” funneling users from this instance into whatever thread, I don’t think it’s that harmful, but I can see why people see it as brigading because that’s what it is
Posting a link is actually violence
It’s not, but it is what the word means, if you disagree with the concept that’s fine, you can think it’s a good thing, but it’s still what most people would describe as “brigading”
Most people would have no fucking idea what brigading is. Only people whose brain have been poisoned by the made up rules on
Are you sure that we should use “whataboutism”? It’s actually a logical fallacy.
Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in “what about…?”) denotes in a pejorative sense a procedure in which a critical question or argument is not answered or discussed, but retorted with a critical counter-question which expresses a counter-accusation. From a logical and argumentative point of view it is considered a variant of the tu-quoque pattern (Latin ‘you too’, term for a counter-accusation), which is a subtype of the ad-hominem argument.
Most of the time libs use accusations of it improperly in the first place. Shit like:
A: “Cuba is a failed state.”
B: “Cuba’s difficulties arise mostly from the American embargo.”
A: “America? Oh my God whataboutism!”
