He just seems to have an agenda of popularising PUA (with perhaps a side order of neoreaction or something along those lines), and while I don't dislike PUA as much as some, I would like him to shut up and go away.
Yeah, this is about what I thought.
It seems to me that ideologically based group karma bombing is a general violation of the norms necessary for a civilized community, but it happens here fairly frequently, and it happens predominantly in one ideological direction.
All sorts of people charge about on their hobby horses around here. Are you so quick to karma bomb the riders who are more ideologically sympatico with you? Not so much, right?
I suppose it's rather useless of me to complain. You want him to shut up. You and your ideological compatriots have achieved the next best thing - disappearing his posts into the karma memory hole. Mission Accomplished.
What do you suppose would happen if people more of my ideological ilk started to respond in kind? Isn't tit for tat the game theoretic appropriate response?
A lot of my reply has been covered already, so I'd just like to make a few points that I don't think have been made so far.
It looks like I've downvoted fewer than a dozen of aa's comments.
One more reason that I don't think I'm like Eugine, is that if aa ever actually asked "I'm being downvoted a lot, what gives?" I would be happy to explain. As far as I know he's never asked, which is one of the reasons that I think he's acting in bad faith. Eugine didn't do this. IIRC, at least one of his targets said that they PMed him asking for an explanation...
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
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