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Lumifer comments on Rationality Quotes Thread August 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Username 22 August 2015 11:06:27PM -2 points [-]

If Ra sees this as a voting game, getting into politically charged arguments with newbies and then down voting them is efficient.

They give him a target that lets him post a lot of replies, and with low karma they can't down vote him back.

He can use a second account to vote up 30% of his replies, giving him a good amount of karma at low risk of discovery.

He gets a chance to run off a newbie that doesn't agree with him.

And we all gain from this. We don't need users that can't ignore a troll.

Comment author: Lumifer 24 August 2015 02:38:21AM 2 points [-]

getting into politically charged arguments with newbies and then down voting them

I don't pay any particular attention to whom VoiceOfRa replies or does not, but it is not my impression that he specifically targets newbies. In the current case under discussion he seems to have been triggered by the phrase "misogynist asshole".

We don't need users that can't ignore a troll.

Your sarcasm needs a lot of work :-P