Viliam_Bur is the person who gets messages asking him to deal with mass downvotes, so I am sympathetic to him not wanting us to attract more mass downvoters.
Not anymore, but yeah, this is where my frustration is coming from. Also, for every obvious example of voting manipulation, there are more examples of “something seems fishy, but there is no clear definition of ‘voting manipulation’ and if I go down this slippery slope, I might end up punishing people for genuine votes that I just don’t agree with, so I am letting it go”. But most of these voting games seem to come from one faction of LW users, which according to the surveys is just a tiny minority.
(When the “progressives” try to push their political agenda on LW—and I don’t remember them doing this recently—at least they do it by writing accusatory articles, and by complaining about LW and rationality on other websites, not by playing voting games. So their disruptions do not require moderator oversight.)
Y’know, you do sound mindkilled about NRx…
Viliam_Bur is the person who gets messages asking him to deal with mass downvotes, so I am sympathetic to him not wanting us to attract more mass downvoters.
Not anymore, but yeah, this is where my frustration is coming from. Also, for every obvious example of voting manipulation, there are more examples of “something seems fishy, but there is no clear definition of ‘voting manipulation’ and if I go down this slippery slope, I might end up punishing people for genuine votes that I just don’t agree with, so I am letting it go”. But most of these voting games seem to come from one faction of LW users, which according to the surveys is just a tiny minority.
(When the “progressives” try to push their political agenda on LW—and I don’t remember them doing this recently—at least they do it by writing accusatory articles, and by complaining about LW and rationality on other websites, not by playing voting games. So their disruptions do not require moderator oversight.)