atucker comments on [meta] Policy for dealing with users suspected/guilty of mass-downvote harassment? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: atucker 07 June 2014 06:35:04PM 1 point [-]

I tend to think of downvoting as a mechanism to signal and filter low-quality content rather than as a mechanism to 'spend karma' on some goal or another. It seems that mass downvoting doesn't really fit the goal of filtering content -- it just lets you know that someone is either trolling LW in general, or just really doesn't like someone in a way that they aren't articulating in a PM or response to a comment/article.