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To Viliam,
Trolling/flaming/spamming report buttons are clearly labeled for their purpose. The downvote button isn't.
To Nornagest,
Here's the big difference: On Facebook, you can't stop OTHER people from seeing what the person has to say, no matter how much you scream at them. With the system here, you can. Their posts will be hidden and they can even lose their posting privileges when they are downvoted. And when I say that's a big difference, I mean that's a BIG difference. Again, think of the religious forum. This same karma system would allow them to literally stop you from speaking to or influencing people who are on the fence or more open to rationality, instead of just posting replies that highlight their own immaturity or irrationality. I think the issue here is clear.
Secondly, when you refer to (I presume) LessWrong as "an ideologically-mixed environment that values things other than conformity," you're assuming that everyone here views it that way. If everyone saw the downvote button in the same idealized form, we wouldn't have a problem. The issue is that the downvote button does not have such a clear and apparent definition, and there doesn't appear to be any actual enforced policy by the LessWrong admins to stop people from using the downvote button to simply express disagreement.
Can't you? Eliezer cites the easiness of clicking a button and making the other person Go Away as a major perceived advantage of posting on FB rather than LW. And even if you downvote someone on LW, well, someone can undo that with an upvote.
Hi gwern, I'm not sure exactly what you mean. In Facebook groups, you can ignore someone, but the person in question can still participate in discussions that don't involve you, or discuss what you've said outside of your own threads. I think this is actually a good thing, since it lets you avoid unconstructive people, but doesn't allow you to censor people from being heard by others if that person has something valuable to add.
Regarding downvoting vs upvoting, counteracting mass downvoters (who apparently have gone to the extent of downvoting someone over 1000 times) is a huge burden on other people and not something they should have to do.
I believe Eliezer was referring to starting posts. So the question is, which is better, a banhappy omnipotent OP or gradual undoable community moderation?
And indeed, it's not something that happens often. Eugine is so far the only person to be banned for mass downvoting in the ~5 year history of a very active site.