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

28 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 06 June 2014 05:46AM

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Comment author: philh 06 June 2014 10:30:58PM *  7 points [-]

This is also why Hacker News disables downvoting on replies to your comments.

Comment author: Nornagest 06 June 2014 10:43:36PM *  2 points [-]

Not a bad feature. It wouldn't solve the main problem we're discussing, but I do think it'd make LW a slightly more pleasant place to be.

You know, modulo the usual problems with getting the feature into production.

Comment author: David_Gerard 07 June 2014 06:37:18AM 3 points [-]

Yeah. Having basically no code contributors emerge from the community (given there are how many good programmers here?) is odd.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 07 June 2014 11:06:39AM 5 points [-]

Have you seen the LW code? I looked at it once, and gave up immediately.

Rewriting the whole thing from scratch would probably be easier, although this could be just some bias speaking.

Comment author: David_Gerard 07 June 2014 12:52:04PM 2 points [-]

Heh. That's a quite plausible explanation :-)

Comment author: philh 07 June 2014 08:18:32PM 1 point [-]

It wouldn't solve the main problem we're discussing

Actually, now that I think about it, it would increase the cost of doing this without giving yourself away, since now you'd need a sockpuppet to downvote their replies to you.

One potential problem is that you could frame someone, but it would be fairly easy for them to clear their name.