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Nornagest comments on Guidelines for Upvoting and Downvoting? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Nornagest 06 May 2015 06:17:07PM *  4 points [-]

There have been explicit mod statements against retributive downvoting (though they rely on a not-entirely-obvious reading of the content deletion policy): see here. We could probably use better and more obvious policy articles on the wiki, granted.

Aside from that, as long as you're not playing voting games with sockpuppets, writing scripts to automate voting, or spending hours of your time on delivering votes and nothing else, I'd say you're pretty safe. There's not a lot of policy because not a lot of policy is needed to regulate typical voting behavior; behave typically in your voting (i.e. vote manually, after reading content, and don't go looking for content to downvote) and you'll be fine.

Comment author: Artaxerxes 06 May 2015 06:22:54PM 1 point [-]

I think having a proper policy article on the wiki stating much what you've just outlined would be a good thing.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 07 May 2015 08:36:54AM *  0 points [-]

Having it somewhere more obvious, like the front page, would .be good as well.