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gjm comments on Open Thread March 21 - March 27, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 20 March 2016 07:54PM

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Comment author: gjm 21 March 2016 01:05:47PM 3 points [-]

Yes, still downvoting. As Elo says, that's one way to find him, though there are others (e.g., some of his aliases have been identified very quickly, probably on style alone).

As for what he's doing, I think he's fighting a culture war. He doesn't really care if he keeps getting banned; he is still able to keep posting what he does, and upvoting it with his sockpuppets[1], and mass-downvoting people who conspicuously disagree with him in the hope of reducing their credibility (and maybe making them go away).

[1] That's a plausible conjecture rather than (so far as I'm aware) something known to be true. Conditional on its being true, I would guess that his socks probably also upvote other people's expressions of sociopolitical views compatible with his own.

Comment author: SanguineEmpiricist 21 March 2016 06:52:10PM *  1 point [-]

=/ We should tell him the opportunity cost of this stuff is too large, don't run down the clock on your life. Eugine_Nier go get a more productive way to channel this frustration.

Comment author: Lumifer 21 March 2016 07:16:48PM 4 points [-]

Telling people to get more productive is dangerous -- they actually might :-/

Comment author: gjm 21 March 2016 08:28:27PM 2 points [-]

I wouldn't expect that to go well.