philh comments on Open thread, Oct. 5 - Oct. 11, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: philh 06 October 2015 03:03:20PM *  2 points [-]

I've seen this happen with non-AA posts, too. Specifically, I'm thinking of buybuydandavis' replies to me in this thread (and I think the actual comment linked too, but I'm not sure about that).

I currently think (~75%) that it's not AA himself doing it. Eugine Nier seems more likely.

Comment author: ChristianKl 06 October 2015 05:40:43PM 2 points [-]

I currently think (~75%) that it's not AA himself doing it. Eugine Nier seems more likely.

Do you think Eugine Nier would think that the posts are valuable?

Comment author: philh 06 October 2015 08:35:10PM -1 points [-]

I don't have a strong model of either of them. But Eugine is known to abuse the voting mechanism with alts, and I generally expect that most people don't do that. I also find it plausible that Eugine would mass-upvote those posts just to be a douche, even if he didn't particularly care for them.