TheAltar comments on The Fable of the Burning Branch - Less Wrong

-19 Post author: EphemeralNight 08 February 2016 03:20PM

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Comment author: TheAltar 12 February 2016 01:54:30PM -1 points [-]

EphemeralNight and Old_Gold's posts seem to have jumped up in votes massively in the last 1-2 days when they were both in the negative iirc.

Comment author: gjm 12 February 2016 02:42:36PM 2 points [-]

This is a behaviour I have often observed on the scores of comments from Eugine_Nier/Azathoth123/VoiceOfRa/The_Lion. (And, I think, more generally on the scores of "neo-reactionary-friendly" comments[1].) It's tempting to attribute this to Eugine's socks, but it could also be that there are a few people of a particular political persuasion who happen to read LW only every few days, and happen to do so in sync.

It might perhaps be worth noting that Lumifer called out Old_Gold as Eugine redivivus practically as soon as he appeared. Make of that what you will.

[1] I don't like this terminology; perhaps someone can suggest something better. I mean comments that say highly negative things about groups that traditionally have low status but that more recently one is supposed to be positive about and understanding of: those who are female, black, gay, poor, transgender, etc.

Comment author: Dentin 12 February 2016 03:01:29PM 1 point [-]

I suspect it's because infrequent old members like myself only check the site every couple of days. I didn't upvote because the fable was good; I upvoted because I felt the author was being unfairly penalized by the downvoting.

Comment author: TheAltar 12 February 2016 03:34:35PM 3 points [-]

Doubtful. The differences are large, one-sided, and occurred in a cluster. They also don't match LW's general leanings for voters.

Comment author: Viliam 17 February 2016 11:23:05AM 0 points [-]

Old_Gold seems to be Eugine. (My subjective probability is about 70% at this moment.)

EphemeralNight behaves quite differently. If I had to guess, I'd guess that Eugine used his sockpuppets to upvote him.