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Thanks!
If it's easy to tell whether Eugine was mass-downvoting me for a while, I'd be interested to know. I estimate p~=0.8. (But it's not worth a lot of effort; I can't have lost more than a hundred points or so.)
I'm in favour of reversing all Eugine's votes. Reversing just the "mass" ones might be even better; I'm not sure.
I hope this will help establish a new moderatorial norm that suspected mass-downvoting incidents (if there are any more) will be investigated and publicized.
Your account does seem to have about a hundred downvotes from Eugine.
Thanks. (Feeling smug about my estimation skills now.)
What would you think of just reversing all the downvotes, but leaving the upvotes?
I would rather see all votes removed completely. If he's willing to downvote en-masse for political reasons, he would also be willing to upvote en-masse for political reasons. If his voting patterns are abusive or politically motivated to the extent that he can no longer be allowed to vote, then his entire history should also be considered untrusted and politically motivated and removed for that reason.
Rarely do I feel so sad about upvoting.
I think I agree with Dentin. More abstractly: just reversing downvotes introduces a bias, and usually that's a bad thing. But Dentin's more specific reasoning is good too.