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[–] TheKillerRabbit 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

Honestly, I think it was to prevent you from brigading.

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[–] piitza 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

where a bunch of people decide to actively group downvote or send a comment storm at a user/sub/thread.

unfortunately, the best definition is from reddit shudder

"It's when a group of people get together to down vote the same thing, be it a single person, or a group of people representing a dissenting ideology.

A lot of people think it happens as a natural result of specialized subreddits such as /r/SubredditDrama or /r/ShitRedditSays. While the owners/creators/mods of those subreddits may have a stance against vote brigading (even honestly so!) One wonders how it can ever be truly avoided given the nature of those sites (singling out comment threads and users in a negative light).

np.reddit.com combats this. Such subreddits (and others) require that links use "np" instead of "www" which prevents voting and, thus, vote brigading.

TL;DR It's the reddit form of a lynch mob"

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[–] Gracchi ago 

Clicking a link and voting is not brigading. Organizing a group of people to all go vote on a link in order to artifically affect the conversation is.