I expect you'd see people in this thread complaining obliquely about something that might eventually start to look like that sort of brigading. I stay out of the threads that's most likely to happen in, here, for game-preference reasons, but I haven't seen any reason to think it's happening.
Huh. Well, I've spotted a few accounts that have now raised my sus meter.
New accounts, long dormant accounts reactivated. Posts promoting that person's work regardless of the OP. Brigades are usually pretty brain-dead affairs. You get a dozen or so people all screaming along the same rough lines out of nowhere. They get ban-hammered, we LOL, and move on.
Yeeeeah, I think I’ve spotted a couple. One never knows if they’re tied into a brigade or not but they always seem to wade right into the thorny topics.
Which really underscores how right it was to blackball him to begin with. He did some good work, back in the day; I used one of his works as the centerpiece of one of my most successful RPG experiences ever, before everything came home to roost for him. There were routes back to mainstream acceptance, starting with public apologies and pledges to change, along with visible proof of the same. America loves a reformed sinner and it wouldn't have been that hard to come back, with some sincere effort.
My next new thread, "Isn't It Time to Uncancel Certain Unjustly Accused Creators?", is practically guaranteed to auto-lock almost instantly, if it makes you feel better.I'd love for ENWorld to have a feature where you can start a new thread that is auto-locked (no one can comment - not even you!) and it gets bumped from likes.
Oh wait. That's just a blog.
