1. Click on the big button in the header next to ‘Local’ that says ‘All’.
  2. Click the drop-down field directly next to ‘All’.
  3. Click ‘Active’ from the drop-down list.
  4. Click on a thread loaded on the page.
  5. 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’ sicko-hexbear

Edit: meant to post this in the secret group chat where we coordinate the fall of the west. Sorry y’all. My bad deeper-sadness

    • treeEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      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

      • forcequit [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        42·
        1 year ago

        Posting reprehensible takes to the dunk tank is good and gives those engaged in the OP a place to vent without actually brigading.

        Posting posts of posters positing the pig poop people are patronizing after performing poorly on personal positions is positive good.

        Sorry for alliteration I just went with it

        • treeEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          to vent without actually brigading

          If you don’t cover the names of the posters then it functionally is no different, people show up into the original threads, it wouldn’t make it impossible to find if you did cover the name as you could still manually type in the text of the post, but at least if the names were covered there would be some plausibility that you don’t expect people to go into the original thread from the thread in thedunktank

            • treeEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              I think that’s different because the person is calling you out directly that invites a response, I’m not referring to this post, just in general clipping comments of people being ignorant and then people from hexbear showing up from seeing it on hexbear, I just don’t think that’s healthy for the fediverse, other communities are not doing it to my knowledge and I hope they don’t start either, besides the two anti-tankie ones but they get like one post a month so I think they’re irrelevant at the moment

              edit: and also the “drama” communities deserve the same kind of criticism

              • forcequit [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
                19·
                1 year ago

                IME it’s all either worldnews posts, or meta ‘here’s why we should defed hexbear’. It’s the same people posting in each tbh.

                100% agree shitxsays/drama comms are sus

        • treeEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          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”

            • treeEnglish
              5·
              1 year ago

              That’s a fair take, I don’t know if the rule is entirely unreasonable in all cases, on reddit the reactionary Destiney fans would organize brigading of Hasanabi stuff, in that case it’s reactionary people brigading leftists, even if it’s the other way around leftists to reactionaries I think it’s still over the top and comes across as annoying and overly combative

              edit: It also blurs the lines of where people found the post, maybe if it wasn’t posted in thedunktank people would have found it browsing, but once it’s in there everyone is gonna assume you came from there