Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The rules are:
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My proposed solution would be something like this:
unban the Eugine_Nier account;
completely disable the Azathoth123 and VoiceOfRa account, e.g. replace their passwords with random junk and throw them away so nobody can log into them;
implement a feature whereby you cannot downvote more than X comments (or more than X' comments by the same author) in a Y-hour period (or need to solve a captcha to do so).
Have an active moderator who will look at suspected cases of mass downvoting in a timely manner (and then punish the downvoter and mod up the victim again)
It is our inability to implement this solution which necessitates all the other ones.
The captcha seems like a terrible solution when we have someone following Penn Jillette's advice for stage magicians:
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You're effectively suggesting we put up a fence (to use Moody's example) in order to show him we disapprove of what he's doing. He already knows that.
Another month, another rationality quotes thread. The rules are: