I see that people are downvoting you but it’s not clear to me but it’s as a retaliation tactic. Have you considered the hypothesis that you’re just writing comments that many people think are bad for one reason or another?
I have tested this hypotheses the first 3 times it happened. If you check my comments, you will note that most of them are not the sorts of things that would be downvoted normally—they’re either clarifying questions, or things that multiple people had previously up-voted.
If 6 posts with high positive karma all get downvoted at once, along with every other post made within the past few days, I’m inclined to believe that it’s retaliatory, especially if it always happens within a few minutes of a particular poster making a post, and especially if that particular poster is someone that I once had a contentious argument with about a political subject.
For what it’s worth, I’ve just looked over a few pages of ialdabaoth’s comments and they seem consistent with this hypothesis (although the bulk of the comments are now at 0/50%, suggesting that someone subsequently upvoted them back to zero). And ialdabaoth has a ~70% positive rating at the moment, which seems anomalous given the content of their contributions.
As for what to do about it, I’m not sure either. That said, I don’t want to see it become a common practice, as it corrupts the information content of karma totals.
So whoever is doing this, please cut it out. You’re soiling the commons.
I see that people are downvoting you but it’s not clear to me but it’s as a retaliation tactic. Have you considered the hypothesis that you’re just writing comments that many people think are bad for one reason or another?
I have tested this hypotheses the first 3 times it happened. If you check my comments, you will note that most of them are not the sorts of things that would be downvoted normally—they’re either clarifying questions, or things that multiple people had previously up-voted.
If 6 posts with high positive karma all get downvoted at once, along with every other post made within the past few days, I’m inclined to believe that it’s retaliatory, especially if it always happens within a few minutes of a particular poster making a post, and especially if that particular poster is someone that I once had a contentious argument with about a political subject.
For what it’s worth, I’ve just looked over a few pages of ialdabaoth’s comments and they seem consistent with this hypothesis (although the bulk of the comments are now at 0/50%, suggesting that someone subsequently upvoted them back to zero). And ialdabaoth has a ~70% positive rating at the moment, which seems anomalous given the content of their contributions.
As for what to do about it, I’m not sure either. That said, I don’t want to see it become a common practice, as it corrupts the information content of karma totals.
So whoever is doing this, please cut it out. You’re soiling the commons.