You know what? That looks a lot like how I feel about you. I frequently deem you in error, but sometimes you say something I like and I've occasionally upvoted you. Believe it or not, in spite of that, I don't like you. Your defense is therefore hardly airtight: it's possible to sometimes upvote a person while disliking them. So either you're hedging to avoid having to admit disliking me (you haven't claimed not to dislike me, you've only said that's not the "issue" and that I don't have the right data to assume it), or there's some additional phenomenon going on besides our voting behavior, or we're talking past each other and mean different things by "like", "don't like", and "dislike".
Of course liking a person is separate from evaluation of their comments -- at least I hope people here act that way! What I dispute is this insinuation that my treatment of you is evidence of having built up some personal or emotional "dislike" of you, as opposed to a clear-headed reaction to the merit of your posts.
I also strongly dispute your suggestion of symmetry: I do not use the voting system as a tool to "get back" at you during disputes, while the evidence suggests that you do start modding me down even when your objectivity ha...
2:45:24 PM Katja Grace: The main thing that puts me off in online dating profiles is lack of ambition to save the world
2:45:35 PM Katja Grace: Or do anything much
2:48:03 PM Michael Blume: *nods*
2:48:07 PM Michael Blume: this is indeed a problem
2:57:55 PM Katja Grace: Maybe there is a dating site for smart ambitious nerds somewhere
2:58:25 PM Katja Grace: Need to set up lw extension perhaps
2:59:02 PM Michael Blume: haha, yes ^^
3:00:40 PM Katja Grace: Plenty of discussion on why few girls, how to get girls, nobody ever says 'oy, girls on lw, want to get together some time?'
3:01:14 PM Michael Blume: somebody really should say that
3:01:34 PM Michael Blume: hell, I'm tempted to just copy that IM into a top-level post and click 'submit'
3:01:48 PM Katja Grace: Haha dare you to