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

39 Post author: Ander 02 July 2014 12:40AM

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Comment author: Tenoke 02 July 2014 03:11:33PM 6 points [-]

Because otherwise the obvious response to "hey, we're banning you for abusing the system" is "OK, thanks. I'll make another account.".

I don't necessarily disagree, but given that the offender will lose > 9k Karma, and will have to grind a bit to be able to keep mass-downvoting, I'd say it is more than a trivial inconvenience.

Comment author: Dentin 03 July 2014 02:57:56PM 1 point [-]

It's possible to make hundreds of karma with minutes of effort simply by copy/pasting somebody else's awesome quote into a monthly quote thread. The amount of grinding required is paltry, and not at all a stumbling block to persistent offenders.