buybuydandavis comments on [moderator action] Eugine_Nier is now banned for mass downvote harassment - Less Wrong

107 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 03 July 2014 12:04PM

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Comment author: CCC 04 July 2014 05:23:23PM 12 points [-]

It's good for the forum to drive some people out.

That is likely to be true, but I'd argue that it's not good for the forum if a single self-selected mostly-anonymous person is the only one deciding who gets driven out.

'Single' implies that consensus among the community is not required; 'self-selected' implies that anyone with an end goal different to that of the site can attempt to force their goal on the community; mostly-anonymous implies a lack of accountability for their decisions. These are all red flags.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 04 July 2014 11:23:39PM 3 points [-]

Yeah, I believe even the signal to noise crowd is generally opposed to individual karma bombing.