People who go back and downvote every post or comment a Less Wrong user has ever made, please, stop doing that. It's a clever way to pull information cascades in your direction but it is clearly an abuse of the content filtering system. It's also highly dishonorable. If you truly must use such tactics then downvoting a few of your enemy's top level posts is much less evil; your enemy loses the karma and takes the hint without your severely biasing the public perception of Less Wrong's discourse.
(I just lost over 200 karma in a few minutes and that'll probably continue for awhile. This happens to me every few weeks. Edit: I mean it's been happening every few weeks for a few months for a total of only three or four. Between 400 and 700 karma lost total I think? I don't mean to overstate the problem.)
Believe me or not, but I'm trying to work on debiasing this site. I don't know how I can raise attention to the issue in a better way than to point to one specific example where a lot of people here including top posters have gone terribly wrong.
In all this discussion it might help to ask yourself "there are a lot of smart people who disagree with me. Maybe they haven't really gone terribly wrong. Maybe I'm wrong."
The notion that top posters could be extremely wrong is not by itself implausible. I can without much effort think of multiple points where I strongly disagree with a variety of top contributors. ... (read more)