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buybuydandavis comments on [meta] Policy for dealing with users suspected/guilty of mass-downvote harassment? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 06 June 2014 09:56:05PM 4 points [-]

Apply a negative karma award to [REDACTED 2]'s account. This makes him pay for false downvotes twice over.

They don't seem false to me. That's pretty clearly his opinion.

Comment author: pragmatist 07 June 2014 06:38:54AM 4 points [-]

I'm assuming "false" here is based on the assumption that upvotes/downvotes should be a reflection of the voter's opinion of the particular comment being voted on, not his or her opinion of the user making the comment without regard to the content of the comment itself. Mass downvoting seems like a strategy for conveying a message about a user, not a comment, and that is plausibly a subversion of the karma system's intent.

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