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

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Comment author: drethelin 07 June 2014 06:38:24PM 3 points [-]

I vote for public shaming of the mass downvoter. "Banning" them is fine but creating extra accounts is fairly trivial.

Comment author: MugaSofer 03 July 2014 03:55:21PM 0 points [-]

I kind of strongly disagree with this. What kind of community are we, if you have to worry about being publicly shamed for an offence that gets banned at some later date?

Creating new accounts is trivial, but since it requires a high karma rating to mass-downvote people, it's likely that the downvoter was at least somewhat invested in their membership here.

Comment author: drethelin 03 July 2014 07:43:31PM 2 points [-]

What exactly are you trying to get me to pattern-match to with that rhetorical question? We're a totally normal kind of community with the ability to express social disapproval when people within the community act like dicks.

Comment author: MugaSofer 05 July 2014 08:14:45PM *  1 point [-]

Well, I don't like the idea that I'm a member of a community that might do that. Maybe I'm suffering from the typical mind fallacy here?

Still, I think I'll refrain from any public shaming myself - unless you have arguments otherwise, which I'd be interested to hear.