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ArisKatsaris comments on Please do not downvote every comment or post someone has ever made as a retaliation tactic. - Less Wrong Discussion

39 Post author: Will_Newsome 21 August 2011 12:35PM

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 21 August 2011 01:42:19PM 1 point [-]

A way to prevent such retaliation tactics would be if the system only allowed one upvote/downvote by a person per five minutes. At least when directed against the same person.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 21 August 2011 03:16:54PM 7 points [-]

Personally I'd prefer if the limit was only on downvotes. Sometimes I see a really good conversation and want to upvote 5 comments in quick succession.

Comment author: Tesseract 22 August 2011 06:32:45AM 8 points [-]

Sometimes I see a really bad series of comments by the same person and want to downvote 5 times in quick succession.

Both of these suggestions would be incredibly overbearing solutions to a relatively minor problem.