So I was sympathizing with someone on a sub, because I followed a link from another sub. The whole idea was that things have gotten worse socially because of particular groups in society trying to make everything appear dangerous. Because I was being sympathetic to someone and saying that our society has gotten worse, I was banned for what hey called brigading.

I decided to test this again, so I went to another reddit and asked them one question "Is one 17 year old sexting another considered pedophilic child porn"? They were talking about how sick a reddit was for saying that drawing underage cartoons was creepy and gross but shouldn't be illegal. This other reddit was going off about it being a safe space for pedos, and I thought that just because its underage doesn't actually make it pedophilia. I asked that question to see if they could explain when it was and wasn't pedophilia, and they banned immediately.

What it seems like to me is that if you visit other subs for a while, and then want to branch out, you're called brigading for wanting to discuss something you found interesting about it.

It'd be like if I started talking in one video game reddit, lets say mechwarrior online, and then someone linked to CS:GO in MW:O, and I and a bunch of other people followed, and then I was interested enough to comment or vote in CS:GO and start participating in that community, and then I get banned from CS:GO for "brigading".

In the other one, it'd be like going to another sub that showed up in r/all and then seeing something you wanted to discuss, and then being banned because you've never visited there before but have visited other reddits.

I just don't get it. Around 60% of the time I actually have a reasonable conversation on the internet, 20% of the time I get trolled, and then 20% of the other time I get accused of trolling or of "brigading" or instigating, etc etc, and get banned or whatever else.

Is there a handbook on how not to troll?