"Additionally, I reject (his?) claim that "the downvotes come from you making a claim about the quoted text that doesn't seem particularly well supported". -6 doesn't happen as a result of a factual mistake, nor does +9 for a clever rationalization; both happen as a result of dislike for me as a person and because of social influences and not as a result of a flawed claim. The intensity of reactions to my posts got much stronger as it became apparent that rejecting my arguments was the hip new trend that all the cool kids were doing."
This is wrong. At least in my case. I do not know who you are and I do not care. I upvote theories I find to well-thought out and/or highly probable. Also I upvote alternative more effective solutions to Harry's problems.
Most of your posts suffer, as far as I can see, from the illusion of transparency. This goes for both the HPMOR-related and community-related comments. I honestly cannot follow your chain of thought nor your the theories you use to infer your deductions. I feel like downvoting some of your posts, not because of the unclear HPMOR-content, but due to the lack of insight in social interactions. I haven't, 'cause I don't think it'll help your understanding (but rather provide false evidence for your flawed theory).
Neither your stance against Harry's dark side being Voldemort NOR your stance for Harry's dark side being Voldemort are very well documented or contains any useful reasoning. Seemingly, you just quote a paragraph and magically arrive at your conclusion. Plus in the parent comment to this one, you don't even reference your original stance, hence it's extremely hard to know that you've just updated your point of view on a specific subject. All in all, you frankly come across as rather paranoid. I've just checked and I've both up- and downvoted some of your comments. Downvotes have been due to "clearly bla bla"-reasoning and upvotes have been for interesting points of view and/or use of evidence I hadn't noticed.
More essentially: why do you honestly care about these useless karma-points? I don't think Buddha will change them for a treat. Personally I don't click on profiles to check their karma. I hope most others don't either.
why do you honestly care about these useless karma-points?
Have you forgotten that people with very low or negative karma have posting delays and cannot downvote?
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This is a new thread to discuss Eliezer Yudkowsky’s Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality and anything related to it. This thread is intended for discussing chapter 85. The previous thread has long passed 500 comments. Comment in the 15th thread until you read chapter 85.
There is now a site dedicated to the story at hpmor.com, which is now the place to go to find the authors notes and all sorts of other goodies. AdeleneDawner has kept an archive of Author’s Notes. (This goes up to the notes for chapter 76, and is now not updating. The authors notes from chapter 77 onwards are on hpmor.com.)
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