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jsteinhardt comments on Downvote stalkers: Driving members away from the LessWrong community? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 02 July 2014 04:31:38AM 40 points [-]

It looks like the person who has been downvoting you is the same person mentioned in this thread. Follow-up queries also indicated that the same person had been downvoting several others who had previously complained of downvote stalking.

The said person failed to respond to my first private message on the subject; because there's the chance that they might have just missed it, I finally got around sending them another message yesterday, explicitly mentioning the possibility of a ban unless they provide a very good explanation within a reasonable time. I apologize for taking so long - I procrastinated on this for a while, as I find it quite uncomfortable to initiate conflict with people.

Comment author: jsteinhardt 02 July 2014 05:29:37AM 5 points [-]

Thanks for following up on this. Any possibility we can know what "within a reasonable time" means concretely? (E.g. days, weeks, months? I think a quicker resolution will be better, though I empathize with your situation.)

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 02 July 2014 09:48:43AM 6 points [-]

Around a week.

Comment author: ChristianKl 02 July 2014 09:08:39AM 2 points [-]

Yes, when it comes to instances like that and asking people to respond in a reasonable timeframe, setting is useful. It makes it easier for you to simply wait for the deadline instead of asking every day yourself: "Is enough time passed that I should do something?"