I’m concerned about downvoting posts containing news information solely on a belief that they were posted by a sockpuppet. It was appropriate for there to be a post on this news development, and downvoting based on a belief about the poster’s identity has the unintended effect of burying the adverse news story (and the appearance of doing so).
Conditional on this being Torres, all those downvotes just played into their hands. If this post were truly objectionable, someone should have put the news information in a separate post so that sockpuppet defense doesn’t imperil visibility of news information.
I thought it was pretty obvious that “Eugenics-Adjacent” would likely be a critic.
I thought it was pretty obvious that “Eugenics-Adjacent” would likely be a critic.
Torres’ tweet and commentators don’t appear to think so, but I often have trouble teasing apart the difference between performative outrage and genuine ignorance, especially from strangers.
I’m concerned about downvoting posts containing news information solely on a belief that they were posted by a sockpuppet. It was appropriate for there to be a post on this news development, and downvoting based on a belief about the poster’s identity has the unintended effect of burying the adverse news story (and the appearance of doing so).
Conditional on this being Torres, all those downvotes just played into their hands. If this post were truly objectionable, someone should have put the news information in a separate post so that sockpuppet defense doesn’t imperil visibility of news information.
I thought it was pretty obvious that “Eugenics-Adjacent” would likely be a critic.
Torres’ tweet and commentators don’t appear to think so, but I often have trouble teasing apart the difference between performative outrage and genuine ignorance, especially from strangers.