TheOtherDave comments on Please do not downvote every comment or post someone has ever made as a retaliation tactic. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 09 June 2013 05:50:22PM 2 points [-]

For what it's worth, I've just looked over a few pages of ialdabaoth's comments and they seem consistent with this hypothesis (although the bulk of the comments are now at 0/50%, suggesting that someone subsequently upvoted them back to zero). And ialdabaoth has a ~70% positive rating at the moment, which seems anomalous given the content of their contributions.

As for what to do about it, I'm not sure either. That said, I don't want to see it become a common practice, as it corrupts the information content of karma totals.

So whoever is doing this, please cut it out. You're soiling the commons.