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brigading
[ bri-gey-ding ]
noun
- the practice of organizing or participating in a coordinated campaign of online harassment against a targeted individual or group, especially on social media:
Female streamers and members or allies of marginalized groups are targeted more often and suffer more persistent brigading on their channels.
- Usually vote brigading. the practice of manipulating an online poll with an organized campaign of favorable or unfavorable votes, often as a general statement of approval or disapproval for a group, an individual, or their beliefs and affiliations rather than a genuine opinion about a specific question: review bomb.
The movie was a target of vote brigading in the first week of its release, dragging its rating down even though it was popular among audiences in the theater.
Word History and Origins
Origin of brigading1
Example Sentences
Cooks moving up in the ranks of the brigade system understand how little they matter and how much that big name can boost a career.
The Reddit brigade, for one, is getting restless for Round 3 of stimmies.
More interesting for the Reddit brigade, short positions have dropped from nearly 140% of shares outstanding to roughly 50% yesterday, says the shorts-trackers at S3 Partners.
Let’s spin the roulette wheel, and see what the Reddit brigade is targeting today… Yep, it’s silver.
As McKay Coppins wrote in a profile, Gingrich was chased out of Congress by the “same bloodthirsty brigade he’d helped elect.”
In fact, anticipating this very emergency, brigading with the British had already been begun.
In brigading the regiments no attention whatever was paid to the race or color of the men.
Sometime in the same month an order was issued from army headquarters, regularly brigading Morgan's command.
Strongholds were strengthening, regiments brigading, cavalry organizing on all sides.
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