Dahlen comments on [meta] Future moderation and investigation of downvote abuse cases, or, I don't want to deal with this stuff - Less Wrong

45 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 17 August 2014 02:40PM

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Comment author: Dahlen 17 August 2014 10:52:55PM 1 point [-]

Not necessarily. There is only so much influence a surge of undeserved downvotes can have over a consistently high-quality, long-term contributor. After all most people do vote more or less fairly, otherwise we wouldn't bother with a karma system.