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bbleeker 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: bbleeker 14 February 2014 11:09:32AM -1 points [-]

Maybe it would help to do what they do on Reddit: disable voting after a certain amount of time.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 15 February 2014 02:57:40AM 3 points [-]

Hm, I always figured that was to decrease the load on their servers by making pages more cacheable.

Comment author: bbleeker 15 February 2014 02:55:31PM -1 points [-]

Two birds, one stone.

Comment author: gjm 14 February 2014 01:15:40PM 3 points [-]

That would certainly prevent the situation where A downvotes 10 old comments from B every day (which is what's been happening to me lately). It wouldn't stop A downvoting every new comment from B as it arrives, though, and that's almost as bad.