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Comment author: LessWrong 24 December 2015 06:55:20AM -2 points [-]

I've gotten sufficient evidence from support that voiceofra has been doing retributive downvoting.

Requesting a transparency report.

Regarding (if $time-$postdate then karmadisabled), I can't see a reason as to why something like that shouldn't be implemented in less than a week. Any reason why it shouldn't? I never quite got the krama drama.

Comment author: jsteinhardt 24 December 2015 07:43:01AM 8 points [-]

Requesting a transparency report.

I think it's bad form to make costly (in terms of time) requests to moderators unless you're willing to be part of the solution. In this case, it would be good at minimum to outline exactly what you mean by a "transparency report" --- concretely, what sort of information would you like to see, and why would it be helpful? It would be even better if you were willing to volunteer to help in creating the report to the extent that the help can be utilized.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 24 December 2015 09:03:27AM 5 points [-]

It took that long for tech support to get back to me.

Comment author: LessWrong 25 December 2015 06:27:28AM -1 points [-]

I can't reply to your other comment (karma)

You don't care about how much time your requests cost me? Nice to know.

Here's what your wrote, first line of this post:

I've gotten sufficient evidence from support that voiceofra has been doing retributive downvoting. I've banned them without prior notice because I'm not giving them more chances to downvote.

If you have sufficient evidence, why can't you publish it?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 25 December 2015 07:15:21AM 6 points [-]

I said over 800 downvotes to three people. This is what support emailed to me. I could copy and paste some support emails with more detail, but I don't know whether you'd trust me, and I don't know whether I'm being invited into an extended discussion which will be utterly pointless.

There's some elements of won't rather than can't. I'm not fond of complying with rude demands.

Comment author: username2 25 December 2015 07:30:26AM 8 points [-]

I said over 800 downvotes to three people.

Just out of curiosity, how unusual is this? That works out to 267 per person, which if those three people happen to be people who post a lot of downvote worthy content, and this has been going on for a while doesn't necessarily seem that large.

Who are those three people anyway?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 25 December 2015 08:08:02AM 8 points [-]

It's at least unusual in the sense that the top downvoter to a particular member has generally posted about three times as many downvotes as the second most prolific downvoter-- and the second most prolific downvoter is also a problematic downvoter. The top five downvoters for a member show something like a power law in terms of numbers of downvotes.

I'm not answering your second question. I've got a bad feeling about doing so, and I suspect the result would tend towards drama and possibly be a violation of privacy.

Comment author: username2 26 December 2015 12:12:56AM 7 points [-]

It's at least unusual in the sense that the top downvoter to a particular member has generally posted about three times as many downvotes as the second most prolific downvoter-- and the second most prolific downvoter is also a problematic downvoter.

How about the top downvoter for a different member?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 26 December 2015 07:28:01AM 3 points [-]

It takes me weeks to get answers from support. I assume they're busy, so I'm not going to ask them extra questions, even though that's an interesting one.

It's possible that the stats show a different pattern if they're from people who aren't complaining.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 26 December 2015 10:10:22AM 3 points [-]

It sounds like the moderators don't have direct read access to the logs. Maybe it would simplify things if they (or at least one of them) did.

Comment author: Diadem 24 December 2015 12:14:46PM 13 points [-]

Wait? is 'LessWrong' not an admin account? I always assumed it was, but this thread implies otherwise.

I think it's an extremely bad idea to allow an ordinary user to name themselves after the site. You're basically inpersonating an admin!

Comment author: ChristianKl 25 December 2015 11:32:26AM 2 points [-]

You are right. I also think it would be a good idea to rename the account.