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Coordinated / multi-account

Several accounts — run by one person, a small group, or a loose crowd — producing the appearance of independent agreement. Manufactured consensus is the product; volume is the weapon.

Responding at this level

Disengaging no longer ends it, because you were never the audience. This is where documentation, platform reporting and support become the real moves, and where "just ignore it" starts doing harm as advice.

14 tactics at this level

  • Sockpuppetry

    One person running multiple accounts to manufacture the appearance of independent agreement.

    Identity & coordination

  • Meatpuppetry

    Recruiting real people to post on your behalf, producing genuine accounts with borrowed motives.

    Identity & coordination

  • Ban evasion

    Returning to a community under a new identity after removal, resetting the moderation record.

    Identity & coordination

  • Brigading

    An organised group arriving from elsewhere to overwhelm a discussion or a person.

    Amplification

  • Dogpiling

    Many people responding to one person at once, where the volume rather than any single message is the harm.

    Amplification

  • Vote manipulation

    Coordinated voting to promote or bury content irrespective of what it says.

    Amplification

  • Review bombing

    Mass negative reviews driven by a grievance unrelated to the thing being reviewed.

    Amplification

  • Mass reporting

    Coordinated abuse reports used to trigger automated enforcement against a target.

    Amplification

  • Astroturfing

    Manufacturing the appearance of grassroots support for an organised or commercial interest.

    Identity & coordination

  • Crowdturfing

    Astroturfing bought at scale through paid-crowd marketplaces rather than run in-house.

    Identity & coordination

  • Impersonation

    Posing as a specific person or organisation to borrow or damage their credibility.

    Identity & coordination

  • Infiltration

    Building a long-running trusted persona inside a community before using the trust it earned.

    Identity & coordination

  • Raiding

    A coordinated influx into a live space — a stream, server or chat — to overwhelm it in real time.

    Amplification

  • Griefing

    Playing a shared space to ruin it for others rather than to win at it.

    Bait