How about: getting a lot of downvotes from new accounts doesn’t decrease your voting-power and doesn’t mean your comments won’t show up on the frontpage? Half a dozen of my latest comments have responded to HBDers. Since they get a notification it doesn’t surprise me that those comments get immediate downvotes which hides them from the frontpage and subsequently means that they can easily decrease my voting-power on this forum (it went from 5 karma for a strong upvote to now 4 karma for a strong upvote). Giving brigaders the power to hide things from the frontpage and decide which people have more voting-power on this forum seems undesirable.
Note: I went through Bob’s comments and think it likely they were brigaded to some extent. I didn’t think they were in general excellent, but they certainly were not negative-karma comments. I strong-upvoted the ones that were below zero, which was about three or four.
I think it is valid to use the strong upvote as a means of countering brigades, at least where a moderator has confirmed there is reason to believe brigading is active on a topic. My position is limited to comments below zero, because the harmful effects of brigades suppressing good-faith comments from visibility and affirmatively penalizing good-faith users are particularly acute. Although there are mod-level solutions, Ben’s comments suggest they may have some downsides and require time, so I feel a community corrective that doesn’t require moderators to pull away from more important tasks has value.
I also think it is important for me to be transparent about what I did and accept the community’s judgment. If the community feels that is an improper reason to strong upvote, I will revert my votes.
How about: getting a lot of downvotes from new accounts doesn’t decrease your voting-power and doesn’t mean your comments won’t show up on the frontpage?
Half a dozen of my latest comments have responded to HBDers. Since they get a notification it doesn’t surprise me that those comments get immediate downvotes which hides them from the frontpage and subsequently means that they can easily decrease my voting-power on this forum (it went from 5 karma for a strong upvote to now 4 karma for a strong upvote).
Giving brigaders the power to hide things from the frontpage and decide which people have more voting-power on this forum seems undesirable.
Note: I went through Bob’s comments and think it likely they were brigaded to some extent. I didn’t think they were in general excellent, but they certainly were not negative-karma comments. I strong-upvoted the ones that were below zero, which was about three or four.
I think it is valid to use the strong upvote as a means of countering brigades, at least where a moderator has confirmed there is reason to believe brigading is active on a topic. My position is limited to comments below zero, because the harmful effects of brigades suppressing good-faith comments from visibility and affirmatively penalizing good-faith users are particularly acute. Although there are mod-level solutions, Ben’s comments suggest they may have some downsides and require time, so I feel a community corrective that doesn’t require moderators to pull away from more important tasks has value.
I also think it is important for me to be transparent about what I did and accept the community’s judgment. If the community feels that is an improper reason to strong upvote, I will revert my votes.
Edit: is to are