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TimS comments on [META] Retributive downvoting: Why? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TimS 29 November 2012 07:19:51PM 0 points [-]

Nonetheless, it would be a courtesy to send some written message if there is a common reason for the downvotes - at least for established user. If you've talked about more than one topic - like monkeymind didn't - it's hard to know from downvotes of old posts what someone wants less of.

Comment author: MinibearRex 30 November 2012 08:10:30PM 3 points [-]

I think any message of this sort is likely to lead to some unpleasantness. "Hey, I just downvoted a whole bunch of your old posts, but it's ok because I actually did think that all of those posts were bad." Downvote things that deserve to get downvoted, but don't make a scene out of it that's just going to poison the discussion.