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I've noticed such user-specific downvotes tend to be a lot more common lately, not just for old folk like us but new folk too. E.g. User:ABrooks made a post about FAI that didn't fit in with local ideas, and consequently almost all of his comments were immediately downvoted. Only -1, but that's enough to significantly bias folks' intuitions about how charitable they should be when reading a comment. Various people have noticed weird voting patterns recently, normally in the form of heavy downvoting of seemingly relatively innocuous comments. I've also noticed that "yay our side, boo their side" comments tend to be very highly upvoted, moreso than a year or two ago. Nothing to do about it, but it might be worth a discussion posts along the lines of "LessWrong has become somewhat more stupid lately, don't take the downvotes too personally". But probably not. (It's not like LessWrong was ever that elite anyway; too much evaporative cooling which resulted in a lot of people who strongly agree with Eliezer even when he's wrong and even when they don't know why he's right. (I used to lean in that direction.) But it's still kinda sad; there aren't any publicly open alternatives.)
I have the reverse message. I say be willing just take them personally when appropriate. I don't really mind people having a personal problem with me but if people sincerely negatively evaluate comments that I consider high quality then that distresses me. After all if I hear "Fuck you! You're a dick." then the subject matter is subjective and they may have a point. If I hear "You're wrong!" then I may, after double checking, actually have to evaluate the accuser as being poor at thinking. Too much of that just leads to contempt and bitterness.
(Old-Timer Topper:) That's nutthin! Do you actually think kids these days have read enough rationality literature - from Eliezer or otherwise - for them to be able to even know which beliefs to take on faith without knowing why? I don't see much in the way of (correct) application of rationality principles for me to be declaring as done without basis.