Imputing motives to people doing things on the 'net is a very traditional and popular activity, of course :-)
In any case, is there a testable assertion here? Do you think that if you wipe all his votes, Eugene, in the immortal words of Gollum, will "go away and never come back"?
Imputing motives
(Let it be noted that I was doing so neither more nor less than you were.)
is there a testable assertion here?
Depends what you mean by testable. I don't know what Eugine will do in any given circumstances; he's a free agent and my mindreading powers are sadly limited. I think he is more likely to go away, and (conditional on not going away) likely to do less mass-downvoting, if he has reason to think that such activity will be noticed and reversed on a timescale of at most (let's say) weeks.
But of course I could be wrong. Perhaps his ...
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