I'm happy to report that few of my downvotes come from a single deranged mass-downvoter, but many different mass-downvoters.

I predict that saying "please comment on this rather than downvoting it" will not be effective in reducing how much it is downvoted.

Hm. I understood otherwise.

To echo OrphanWilde, Eugine's views on empirics are typically well-supported by the facts, and you'll find people like me making similar points in similar places. He's also been around a long time, and has made a large number of good comments, and is a good source of rationality quotes.

The trouble is almost entirely the vote manipulation.

I think the actual situation is something like this.

• Eugine believes that there are systematic (statistical) mental differences between men and women, between black people and white people, etc.
  • I think the LW consensus on this, in so far as there is one, is that there probably are such differences.
  • I suspect most LW participants would estimate smaller differences than Eugine would.
  • Eugine seems to love to talk about these differences and to trot them out as his preferred explanation for anything anyone might otherwise explain as racism, sexism, etc. Most LW participants do not have that preference.
• Eugine believes that departures from traditional norms of sexuality and gender are Bad: boo to homosexuality, boo squared to transgenderism, etc.
  • I think the LW consensus on this is squarely against him.

And those are pretty much all the issues that Eugine posts a lot about. He may well have strong and/or interesting opinions on many other topics, but it seems that what he mostly wants to talk about is the inferiority of black people and the contemptibility of transgender people. (This wasn't always true. Compare the first page of The_Lion's user overview with that of, say, Eugine_Nier's.)

I agree with OrphanWilde, it's not about the views, it's about the methods he's using.

Some of us are -very- opposed to his views, and for reasons which probably to some extent come down to politics, we tend to fight him a little harder than those who are merely opposed to his tactics.

Evil mods seem like a poor explanation

I'm looking for the sexiest explanation.

Probably a few sockpuppets upvoting all his comments

I wonder how many total accounts The Great Eugine Noir has at this point? 50+? I suppose he would only need to create a handful (~10-12) of "voting" puppets that could be used over and over again. Then he needs a steady supply of kamikaze comment puppets which, after vetting themselves artificially by posting legitimately useful rationality quotes, are inevitably banned once he actually starts voicing his opinion through them.

I wonder if Eugine has a favorite sock puppet?

I don't think that's the whole story. Many, many of his comments, including very poor ones, get upvoted within minutes of being posted. In particular, at one point every single The_Lion2 comment had five or more upvotes.