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

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 11 June 2014 12:30:38AM *  3 points [-]

Mass downvoting would be a legitimate, non-anti-social choice if the votes were counted in a proper Bayesian way, in terms of the evidence they provided. The mass-downvoter's votes would provide no evidence, and so would count for zero.