It's -19 now, after my own downvote. I've not yet seen that Youtube -- I downvoted it just for the obsession with counting your downvotes. 3/4ths of that post are you complaining about the downvotes. Sheesh.
And since you ask people in the same post NOT to upvote it, I think it will keep going down, as it has no way of going up.
And since you ask people in the same post NOT to upvote it, I think it will keep going down, as it has no way of going up.
I fixed that. I meant people who already downvoted it not to later upvote it.
People who go back and downvote every post or comment a Less Wrong user has ever made, please, stop doing that. It's a clever way to pull information cascades in your direction but it is clearly an abuse of the content filtering system. It's also highly dishonorable. If you truly must use such tactics then downvoting a few of your enemy's top level posts is much less evil; your enemy loses the karma and takes the hint without your severely biasing the public perception of Less Wrong's discourse.
(I just lost over 200 karma in a few minutes and that'll probably continue for awhile. This happens to me every few weeks. Edit: I mean it's been happening every few weeks for a few months for a total of only three or four. Between 400 and 700 karma lost total I think? I don't mean to overstate the problem.)