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Gunnar_Zarncke 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: 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: Gunnar_Zarncke 07 June 2014 12:27:58PM 1 point [-]

I also see it that strictly downvoting is a valid signal - esp. as it is limited to x4 karma. See my comment here.