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Error comments on [moderator action] Eugine_Nier is now banned for mass downvote harassment - Less Wrong Discussion

107 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 03 July 2014 12:04PM

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Comment author: Error 03 July 2014 02:21:00PM 10 points [-]

jackk mentioned the possibility of reversing Eugine's votes by running a script to upvote the comments that he had downvoted.

Villiam's solution is better, I think. The system certainly keeps track of who downvoted what and allows reversions, because I can see and revert my own up or downvotes.

Further improvement: Remove only downvotes against users he specifically targeted. Whatever remains is probably still a valid signal. That might be a more complex script, though.

Comment author: Nornagest 03 July 2014 07:04:30PM *  2 points [-]

That might be a more complex script, though.

Find all sets of Eugine's votes on comments by particular users, filter out any sets such that there are less than ten votes within that set or the ratio of upvotes to downvotes is greater than, say, 0.2, and reverse any downvotes in the remaining sets? That sounds like it should be compactly doable with SQL, although I don't know a thing about the LW database.

Comment author: Error 03 July 2014 10:29:29PM 2 points [-]

That's why I hedged a bit. I know SQL is capable of doing such a thing, but I don't know anything about the LW database either.