Viliam_Bur comments on Is this dark arts and if it, is it justified? - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 17 November 2014 07:00PM

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Comment author: Viliam_Bur 19 November 2014 09:37:48AM 11 points [-]

Hi ike! As a moderator of this website, I would appreciate if next time when you believe you have an evidence of abusing votes, you would (also) send me a private message with the data, instead of contributing to the spiral of strategic downvoting and upvoting. I am usually reading LW almost every day, but I cannot read all articles and all comments.

If there is a pattern of "new users, upvoting Gleb and not doing anything else", it will be visible in the database, and I will deal with it. At this moment, everyone please don't strategically downvote or anything like that. Thanks!

Comment author: ChristianKl 20 November 2014 09:49:31AM 2 points [-]

It seems like an attempt to illustrate the issue with someone claiming to do dark arts.

If "Ends Justify Means" there wouldn't be a problem with paying people on Mechanical Turks to upvote posts. On the other hand to the extend that you don't believe "Ends Justify Means" then there's obviously an issue with it.

The account that first accused Gleb in capital letters is newly registered.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 24 November 2014 12:24:03PM *  1 point [-]

It seems like an attempt to illustrate the issue with someone claiming to do dark arts.

Still, making damage to illustrate a point is not a nice thing to do.