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Comment author: Emile 13 February 2014 05:38:30PM 9 points [-]

Time for a poll!

Systematic downvoting of users (that aren't spambots or obvious trolls) is wrong.

Systematic downvoting of users (that aren't spambots or obvious trolls) is against community norms (i.e. people should already know it's wrong).

It would be nice if admins had a way of automatically detecting such behavior (e.g. running an SQL query to pick up patterns of mass-downvote)

By the way, dear LessWrong reader, have you ever been a victim of mass downvotes?

And have you engaged in it?

(not that I think such polls should have power of law, it's just nice to have an idea of the opinion of the community)

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Comment author: FeepingCreature 14 February 2014 02:00:42AM *  12 points [-]

I think if I'd notice that I always tend to downvote some person's comments when I see them, I might end up looking at their history for comments I'm likely to also disfavor. But I wouldn't downvote their comments just because they're the one who made them; I'd judge each comment individually. I don't know if this is against community norms.

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