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Jonathan_Graehl 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: Jonathan_Graehl 21 August 2011 07:40:15PM 3 points [-]

Obviously. On the other hand, does it really matter? The person doing so is harming themselves by wasting their time. You're not really harmed.

I guess you're arguing that most comments have a low number of votes, so the retaliation damages the comment-score-signal. That's reasonable.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 22 August 2011 01:09:26AM 5 points [-]

Well, I've seen this happen to newbies who take contrarian positions.

Comment author: wedrifid 22 August 2011 05:11:42AM 6 points [-]

Well, I've seen this happen to newbies who take contrarian positions.

I see it happen more to newbies who make incoherent arguments with a belligerent attitude. This is, we can hope, correlated with them taking contrarian positions. (If not we are doing something wrong.)