[epistemic status: this pattern-matches behaviour I’ve seen on LessWrong before, so I’m suspicious there may be a mass downvoter here. It could be a coincidence. Not above 40% confident at this point. Feel free to ignore.]
Someone keeps consistently downvoting Kerry’s comments. I’ve been on LessWrong for a while, where that was an occasional nuisance for everyone, but a real bother for the few users who go the brunt of it. I imagine there’s a future for the EA Forum where the almost universal upvoting stops, and more downvoting begins. In all honesty, I’d think that’d lead to healthier discourse. However, I’d like to denormalize mass downvoting all of one user’s comments. Whoever you are, even if you’re really mad at Kerry right now, I think we can at least agree we don’t want to set a precedent of only downvoting comments without giving feedback and why we disagree. I’d like to set a precedent we do.
Joey and Michael have both weighed in that they think a CEA team spending a lot of time on this relative to a little time isn’t worth it. Kerry agreed. Be assured CEA staffers aren’t wasting time and valuable donor money, then. Even if you think this whole thread is a stupid idea of Kerry’s, and his suggestions are stupid too, please come out and say why so whatever problem you perceive may be resolved.
It should be theoretically possible, but it sounds like a good deal of work. I’ve put off wanting to work on it until there’s public demand for it. Sounds like the public demand might be mounting.
I’ve spent enough time on forums to know that you can’t stop people from voting politically by asking them politely. I think a better solution is to automatically detect mass-downvoting and nullify those votes in the source code. https://github.com/tog22/eaforum/issues/47
[epistemic status: this pattern-matches behaviour I’ve seen on LessWrong before, so I’m suspicious there may be a mass downvoter here. It could be a coincidence. Not above 40% confident at this point. Feel free to ignore.]
Someone keeps consistently downvoting Kerry’s comments. I’ve been on LessWrong for a while, where that was an occasional nuisance for everyone, but a real bother for the few users who go the brunt of it. I imagine there’s a future for the EA Forum where the almost universal upvoting stops, and more downvoting begins. In all honesty, I’d think that’d lead to healthier discourse. However, I’d like to denormalize mass downvoting all of one user’s comments. Whoever you are, even if you’re really mad at Kerry right now, I think we can at least agree we don’t want to set a precedent of only downvoting comments without giving feedback and why we disagree. I’d like to set a precedent we do.
Joey and Michael have both weighed in that they think a CEA team spending a lot of time on this relative to a little time isn’t worth it. Kerry agreed. Be assured CEA staffers aren’t wasting time and valuable donor money, then. Even if you think this whole thread is a stupid idea of Kerry’s, and his suggestions are stupid too, please come out and say why so whatever problem you perceive may be resolved.
Can any mods see where the down votes come from and if there’s a patter?
It should be theoretically possible, but it sounds like a good deal of work. I’ve put off wanting to work on it until there’s public demand for it. Sounds like the public demand might be mounting.
I’ve spent enough time on forums to know that you can’t stop people from voting politically by asking them politely. I think a better solution is to automatically detect mass-downvoting and nullify those votes in the source code. https://github.com/tog22/eaforum/issues/47
What about doing a poll on FB (instead or additionally, idk)? Or a private poll elsewhere? (FB is good because people can comment explanations.)