Lumifer comments on Rationality Quotes Thread August 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion
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We don't want to remove the ability to do mass downvoting. If someone posts 100 random Wikipedia articles in the belief that this provides insight, they should be downvoted. What we want to do is remove the ability to do mass downvoting based on the downvoter's motivation. No automated process can detect motivation, so we can't do that without using a moderator.
Yes, but not necessarily by one person.
I think you may be using different definitions of "mass downvoting". I think Jiro means downvoting many of one user's comments with just one account. I think several people have "mass-downvoted" Clarity this week, but nobody complained.