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gjm comments on [moderator action] The_Lion and The_Lion2 are banned - Less Wrong Discussion

51 Post author: Viliam_Bur 30 January 2016 02:09AM

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Comment author: gjm 31 January 2016 02:33:02AM 4 points [-]

sockpuppet accounts to downvote people he didn't like

I've been mass-downvoted quite a bit by Eugine and I don't recall ever seeing any comment of mine downvoted more than once. If he's using sockpuppets, it's not so much "to downvote people" but either (1) to hide his mass-downvoting by splitting it among socks or (2) to upvote his own comments (whose karma trajectory over time is often rather peculiar).

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 31 January 2016 07:15:57AM 8 points [-]

Sockpuppets are for upvoting, not downvoting, because downvoting requires karma and upvoting doesn't.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 31 January 2016 07:47:34PM 2 points [-]

Also, whereas as gjm noticed hardly any comments have more than one "anomalous" downvote, plenty of comments have like half a dozen anomalous upvotes.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 31 January 2016 10:36:22AM 1 point [-]

Traditionally he posted quotes in Rationality Quotes threads to farm karma he could use for the downvotes. Maybe he got tired of doing that.