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12 Post author: ialdabaoth 27 November 2012 02:24AM

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Comment author: Username 28 November 2012 06:15:19AM *  -2 points [-]

Technical workaround:

Make it so that you cannot upvote/downvote from a user's comment history page. Or rather, show the vote as counting to the person pressing it but don't actually tally it.

EDIT: Ok, I see that the buttons have been taken off so this is irrelevant. In that case, new proposal: put the buttons back but make them do nothing. The majority of LW won't read this post and I think you'll be able to fool those who go to mass-downvote comment histories.

Comment author: [deleted] 28 November 2012 06:25:48AM *  4 points [-]
Comment author: atorm 29 November 2012 03:14:00AM 0 points [-]

I kind of like your second plan.