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shminux 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 10:04:42PM 3 points [-]

Isn't downvoting a valid a signal? Why should it necessarily be discouraged?

Is there anything that keeps sock puppets from voting? Wouldn't the offenders just switch to those?

I think a better alg is the author of the max downvotes on one person. It just seems to me that downvoting per se is not necessarily a bad thing.

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.

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