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Jonathan_Graehl comments on Please do not downvote every comment or post someone has ever made as a retaliation tactic. - Less Wrong
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Obviously. On the other hand, does it really matter? The person doing so is harming themselves by wasting their time. You're not really harmed.
I guess you're arguing that most comments have a low number of votes, so the retaliation damages the comment-score-signal. That's reasonable.
Well, I've seen this happen to newbies who take contrarian positions.
I see it happen more to newbies who make incoherent arguments with a belligerent attitude. This is, we can hope, correlated with them taking contrarian positions. (If not we are doing something wrong.)