I can generally tell where downvotes are coming from. The aspersion I threw at Gleb is that he is, as far as I can tell, using sockpuppet accounts to upvote his own stuff (when he thinks it’s important). Complaining about my own downvotes would be petty and counterproductive. (Particularly since my total karma score remains unchanged from the beginning of this debacle. It was up 100 at one point, but dropped back down.)
I understand you use posturing and accusations without evidence as part of your Dark Arts arsenal, and accept that. I doubt anyone will come across this comment, since it’s so far down and the thread is not new. Just wanted you to know personally, in case you aren’t simply posturing, that I don’t use sockpuppets. I have a number of Less Wronger friends who support the cause of spreading rational thinking broadly, and whenever I make significant posts or particularly salient comments, I let them know, so that they can give me optimizing suggestions and feedback.
Since they happen to share many of my views, they sometimes upvote my comments. They generally don’t participate actively, and this is a rare exception on the part of Raelifin, as they do not want to be caught in the backlash. So FYI for the future. Feel free to continue making these accusations for Dark Arts purposes if you wish, but I just wanted you to know.
The term for extreme versions of this is “meatpuppet”. Of course having friends is not the same thing as having meatpuppets, and I have no way of knowing to what extent your friends are LW participants who just happen to be your friends and would have upvoted your articles anyway, and to what extent they’re people who come here only to upvote your articles for you. The nearer the latter, the more meatpuppety.
Well, didn’t expect other people besides myself and OrphanWilde to still be reading this thread, updating on that.
The people who I’m talking about are LW participants, I wouldn’t ask them to give me feedback and advice on my writing and engagement otherwise, what’s the point of doing so? To be clear, far from all of them upvote my comments, as they don’t agree with everything I write, of course. And my point in bringing their attention to it is for me to improve my communication, and also help myself update. It’s harder to update when things are said in a hostile way by faceless LW commenters, but my friends can provide me with a trusted external perspective on things. They do tend to agree with most stuff, sometimes choose to upvote, and rarely comment, for the reasons stated above.
I’m sharing all of this for the sake of transparency, as this is a strong value I hold. Not something I had to share, and I know it arouses suspicions, but this is my choice due to my personal value system.
I can generally tell where downvotes are coming from. The aspersion I threw at Gleb is that he is, as far as I can tell, using sockpuppet accounts to upvote his own stuff (when he thinks it’s important). Complaining about my own downvotes would be petty and counterproductive. (Particularly since my total karma score remains unchanged from the beginning of this debacle. It was up 100 at one point, but dropped back down.)
I understand you use posturing and accusations without evidence as part of your Dark Arts arsenal, and accept that. I doubt anyone will come across this comment, since it’s so far down and the thread is not new. Just wanted you to know personally, in case you aren’t simply posturing, that I don’t use sockpuppets. I have a number of Less Wronger friends who support the cause of spreading rational thinking broadly, and whenever I make significant posts or particularly salient comments, I let them know, so that they can give me optimizing suggestions and feedback.
Since they happen to share many of my views, they sometimes upvote my comments. They generally don’t participate actively, and this is a rare exception on the part of Raelifin, as they do not want to be caught in the backlash. So FYI for the future. Feel free to continue making these accusations for Dark Arts purposes if you wish, but I just wanted you to know.
The term for extreme versions of this is “meatpuppet”. Of course having friends is not the same thing as having meatpuppets, and I have no way of knowing to what extent your friends are LW participants who just happen to be your friends and would have upvoted your articles anyway, and to what extent they’re people who come here only to upvote your articles for you. The nearer the latter, the more meatpuppety.
Well, didn’t expect other people besides myself and OrphanWilde to still be reading this thread, updating on that.
The people who I’m talking about are LW participants, I wouldn’t ask them to give me feedback and advice on my writing and engagement otherwise, what’s the point of doing so? To be clear, far from all of them upvote my comments, as they don’t agree with everything I write, of course. And my point in bringing their attention to it is for me to improve my communication, and also help myself update. It’s harder to update when things are said in a hostile way by faceless LW commenters, but my friends can provide me with a trusted external perspective on things. They do tend to agree with most stuff, sometimes choose to upvote, and rarely comment, for the reasons stated above.
I’m sharing all of this for the sake of transparency, as this is a strong value I hold. Not something I had to share, and I know it arouses suspicions, but this is my choice due to my personal value system.
LOL. So no sockpuppets but a cheerleading squad on call..? X-)
I responded about this above.