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shminux 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: shminux 06 June 2014 11:05:23PM 3 points [-]

I think a better alg is the author of the max downvotes on one person.

Yes, I believe that this is similar to what I have suggested. A mass downvoter would be a strong outlier on the 30-day downvote histogram (# users who downvoted vs # downvotes they gave) of a given user.