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Strilanc comments on A few remarks about mass-downvoting - Less Wrong Discussion

17 Post author: gjm 13 February 2014 05:06PM

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Comment author: Strilanc 13 February 2014 07:32:34PM 3 points [-]

Relevant post from the stack overflow blog: Vote Fraud and You (not so much for the post itself as the comments and links).

Given that the karma system has value, does not function well when people mass-downvote, and that people are actually mass-downvoting, it's important to deal with the problem.