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The only "raids" I can remember in recent history are things like online polls to choose the new Mountain Dew name or "who do you think won the debate last night polls", but then again maybe it just doesn't make headlines or have the unified goal like stuff from the 2000s did (chanology, etc).

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It was 2006 IIRC. I was a teenager at the time and the raids were my favorite thing about /b/. I think we made up like 80% of the callers to Tom Green's online talk show - he was really getting a taste of his own medicine, after having grown out of such antics himself

I didn't take part in anything like trying to drive people to suicide as described in the boingboing post in another comment in this thread. Once 4chan banned raids I moved on (and also aged out of such behavior).

4chan was a different place then. It's hard to imagine people assembling in Guy Fawkes masks to protest scientology today

The only super-influential one I remember was when moot was named Time person of the year. That was /b/ though, not /pol/.

That was the Time 100[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marblecake_also_the_game

I lost the game...

You are probably thinking of "raids" in the wrong sense, in that you probably think the raid needs to be funny. However, they are discussing /pol/ and online harassment instead.

The researchers point out they looked for YouTube links and Twitter hashtags. As for not making headlines, you probably just aren't remembering GamerGate, and the harassment of roughly every public feminist figure in the last 10 years. And that's really just the tip of the iceberg.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.07784.pdf

There was a big crack down in the early 2010s, at least on 4chan. Most of the boards that the people who were into that sort of thing were smaller and didn't tend to have the same activism bent that the older invasion stuff did.

https://boingboing.net/2015/01/19/invasion-boards-set-out-to... - This article describes a bit more about what the modern raid stuff looks like.

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