the reddit.com/report form is not very effective for getting instances of "THIS thread is being brigaded by THIS subreddit as a result of THIS post" handled promptly and appropriately. when an active covid disinformation sub (which is likely a ban evasion sub for NoNewNormal, considering the talking points are all the same) is swarming into any covid-related thread in another sub because of a direct link and all i can do is report "ban evasion" on each user (which most of them aren't) or "vote manipulation" (which will probably come back as "they didn't vote so nothing to see here") and messages to modsupport can take anywhere from several days to never to be answered, that's just untenable for mod teams. and i am convinced that reporting our own threads for "community interference" doesn't do anything at all.

why can't reddit have a dedicated "brigading" report button to address people posting a thread in one sub talking about another sub and showing up to that other sub leaving a bunch of nasty comments? why don't those reports take priority so that admins can lock and remove the brigade thread, and suspend the brigading accounts to actually put a stop to it? why are covid misinformation subreddits allowed to continue swarming and metastasizing like this? how can anyone feel safe on reddit when hordes of malevolent users can descend upon vulnerable groups and overwhelm them with hate speech and disinfo and the admins are like "we will get back to you in 3-5 business days and probably won't find any wrongdoing when we do"?