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Plunger style. Has not been bled. It's not super easy to depress the button all the way, if that's what you mean by "actuate," but I have no trouble doing it. The problem is that even with the button all the way down, it takes a ton of force to get the seat "unstuck". Once it's unstuck it works fine.
Here's a kind of goofy, short-term workaround that saved my wife on a 10-day mtb trip where we had no access to a Reverb rebuild kit -- easy to do with two people:
1. Flip bike upside down on floor.
2. While one person pushes the pluger in, the other collapses the bike down through the full travel of the dropper post.
3. While still collapsed and upside down, release plunger.
4. Flip bike over right side up, depress plunger, and allow dropper to extend.
5. Repeat a second time.
By flipping over the design of the hydraulic cartridge in the latest Reverb redesign, this is what Rockshox allow to be done with a tiny little bleed port, while the bike is right side up.
Good luck!