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Most of you are probably annoyed by the sudden focus on Eugine; why is Less Wrong focusing so much on one person? Isn't that just giving him what he wants?
Well, to answer the first question, we're not focusing on Eugine; I'm currently mostly poking him in my off-time using low-effort strategies with particular goals in mind. If I decided to wage war on Eugine, no-holds-barred, I'd start with an upvote brigade; any individual identified as being targeted by Eugine would be targeted far more effectively by my bots, with a 10:1 upvote ratio, and targeted downvotes at his sockpuppets. And I'd work to be sanctioned by the admins, meaning my brigade wouldn't suffer attrition the way his sockpuppet army would.
Even that would be low-effort. It'd take about an hour of coding, and another hour to register all the accounts. (Somewhat longer would be getting administrator approval to break the rules.) If I really wanted to get him, I'd pull down the source code for Less Wrong and create tools to find his bots and disable them. It wouldn't even be difficult.
As for the second question, of whether focusing on him is giving him what he wants: Some of you weren't around for his first downvote campaign. Let's not kid ourselves: Eugine won, and Less Wrong was left crippled; he already GOT what he wanted. Many people left as a result of his campaign, and Less Wrong entered something of a downward spiral from which it never fully recovered. The people who left were all people who disagreed with his views, and this has created a bias which has, through the slow weight of upvotes and downvotes, become acculturated here.
And he's never stopped pushing Less Wrong in his favored direction. I've kicked the hornet's nest, mostly because that's what I do, and he's more active at the moment - but make no mistake, he's never stopped being active. As demonstrated by his recent campaign, he's never actually given up the methods he used the first time around.
Less Wrong 2.0 won't fix the problem, and as long as he's playing this game, he's deciding the direction Less Wrong leans - by pushing his finger down whenever the scale stops favoring him. Whatever rules are put in place, he'll ignore or attempt to game. He's waging war on those of you he disagrees with - he's been waging war on you for years - but now it's noticeable. I think most people have noticed now.
Nancy has done an excellent job of nuking his accounts as they've made themselves known, but the tools do not yet exist to truly finish him off.
So. Any other strategies? Do mind that what you write here, he'll as likely as not read. I'm engaging him, but I can't say what my strategies are. (Insofar as I specify my own strategies, I'm writing the strategy I want Eugine to read, and respond to. Yes, this includes this entire comment; I want Eugine to read this, and more, I want him to know that I know that he knows what I'm up to. Or at least, he thinks he does.)
This is rude to say, but I honestly believe that the technical support of LW does not give a fuck about Eugine, and their cooperation is lukewarm at best. Otherwise the problem would be already solved years ago.
Really, how difficult it would be create a script that would revert all Eugine's votes? Let's suppose it would take a week of work. So? More than hundred weeks have already passed, and nothing happened.
Without cooperation of the technical support, there is not much a moderator could do, other than playing whack-a-mole with the new accounts. Which, as we see, does not work, because Eugine just creates new accounts, and the downvotes made by the old ones stay there.