knb comments on Yudkowsky's brain is the pinnacle of evolution - Less Wrong

-27 Post author: Yudkowsky_is_awesome 24 August 2015 08:56PM

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Comment author: knb 25 August 2015 01:19:06AM *  5 points [-]

I'm surprised to see this at 45% positive. I wonder if someone is mass-upvoting this, or if people are just upvoting it as a satire. If it is a concerted effort to mass-upvote, what is the point? To make Less Wrong seem crazy?

Comment author: gwern 25 August 2015 03:01:19PM *  2 points [-]

I'm pretty sure it's vote manipulation. I downvoted both comments when I came across them in the comment feed, but by the time I saw this post, they had gone from -2 to +2. Gaining 4 net upvotes that fast is well beyond some LWers whose sense of satire is broken.

Comment author: welp 26 August 2015 01:28:33PM 1 point [-]

I suspect mass-upvoting. Look at the amount of upvotes they've previously got for comments of empty praise

Comment author: Viliam 25 August 2015 08:58:22AM 0 points [-]

If it is a concerted effort to mass-upvote, what is the point?

To demonstrate the easiness of gaming the votes?

Comment author: polymathwannabe 25 August 2015 03:11:36PM 1 point [-]

What, we have our own Sad Puppies now?