Yes, but I feel that problem nullifies the paragraph.
That’s a very different case. Downvoting a person into losing privileges can by done by a single user if the target’s posted a lot of marginal or controversial comments, but unless they’re very new it takes a lot of patience or a downvote script (Eugine seems to have been using patience), and AFAICT most people have karma ratios high enough that it’d take sockpuppets or other abuses that could be targeted by narrower rules.
I would have agreed that the patience required is a barrier, until I found out about the 1000 vote attacks. Also, even giving someone a smaller amount of downvotes can become a problem if it’s disproportionate to the upvotes. Such as downvoting the person’s last 30-50 comments. It simply requires a larger number of people to be doing it. When there was no indication that there would be mass downvote moderating, I actually downvoted Eugine several times in a row out of annoyance when I realized what he was doing to other people...since I figured there was no other option to control it.
Anyway, it may be of course that Eugine is the first person to be outed for this behavior and it will become a regular thing. In which case this issue may cease to be a problem at all.
Eugine may be the only person to have (recently) been using this as a tool of policy, aside from a couple people downvoting him in retribution. If you look at the patterns of people targeted for retributive downvoting (here, here, and here, plus this thread and its relatives), most of the situations seem to fit his MO and apparent set of grievances. Perhaps most tellingly, I don’t know of anyone besides Eugine himself who’s been mass-downvoted by two users (which is easy to tell from karma on obscure or unremarkable posts).
(I’m not sure about Will_Newsome, but that was three years ago.)
Yes, but I feel that problem nullifies the paragraph.
I would have agreed that the patience required is a barrier, until I found out about the 1000 vote attacks. Also, even giving someone a smaller amount of downvotes can become a problem if it’s disproportionate to the upvotes. Such as downvoting the person’s last 30-50 comments. It simply requires a larger number of people to be doing it. When there was no indication that there would be mass downvote moderating, I actually downvoted Eugine several times in a row out of annoyance when I realized what he was doing to other people...since I figured there was no other option to control it.
Anyway, it may be of course that Eugine is the first person to be outed for this behavior and it will become a regular thing. In which case this issue may cease to be a problem at all.
Eugine may be the only person to have (recently) been using this as a tool of policy, aside from a couple people downvoting him in retribution. If you look at the patterns of people targeted for retributive downvoting (here, here, and here, plus this thread and its relatives), most of the situations seem to fit his MO and apparent set of grievances. Perhaps most tellingly, I don’t know of anyone besides Eugine himself who’s been mass-downvoted by two users (which is easy to tell from karma on obscure or unremarkable posts).
(I’m not sure about Will_Newsome, but that was three years ago.)