I would be surprised if it’s 30-40 people. My guess is it’s more like 5-6 people with reasonably high vote-strengths. Also, I highly doubt that the overall bias of the conversation here leans towards progressive-valenced comments being suppressed. EA is overwhelmingly progressive and has a pretty obvious anti-right bias (which like, I am a bit sympathetic to, but I feel like a warning in the opposite direction would be more appropriate)
My wording was imprecise—I meant 30-40ish in terms of karma. I agree the number of people is more likely to be 5-12. And my point is less about overall bias than just a particular voting dynamic—at first upvotes and downvotes occurring as is pretty typical, then a large and sudden influx of downvotes on everything from a particular camp.
I would be surprised if it’s 30-40 people. My guess is it’s more like 5-6 people with reasonably high vote-strengths. Also, I highly doubt that the overall bias of the conversation here leans towards progressive-valenced comments being suppressed. EA is overwhelmingly progressive and has a pretty obvious anti-right bias (which like, I am a bit sympathetic to, but I feel like a warning in the opposite direction would be more appropriate)
My wording was imprecise—I meant 30-40ish in terms of karma. I agree the number of people is more likely to be 5-12. And my point is less about overall bias than just a particular voting dynamic—at first upvotes and downvotes occurring as is pretty typical, then a large and sudden influx of downvotes on everything from a particular camp.