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No, it isnt. Brigading is leveraging community support to harm others. Asking people to help resolve wrongful reports is not brigading, nor harmful. The vouch button exists for a reason.

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This is absolutely brigading, it doesn't change just because you like the project.

It doesnt change ever, regardless of who likes what, and this does not match the definition of brigading. Brigading is an offensive action that involves rallying people to abuse services and/or people. Mass reporting comments and replies by the GrapheneOS account is brigading. The vouch button is not an offensive action. The replies that were vouched for were already written and posted by one account.

Haha yeah nah meanings of words don't change when people get accused of them with solid evidence

That’s like saying people internal to a network running commands to protect against an active intrusion are hackers.

If you don’t believe they were brigaded, say that - that feels like a different, better conversation.

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