Noted. I’ll hazard a guess that it didn’t have anything much to do with the Rationality Diaries. -- Did you by any chance get involved in discussions of politics, gender or race, and take a position that would not generally be described as “really right-wing”? Most of the cases of mass-downvoting I’ve encountered on LW seem to have been done by neoreactionaries. (Quite possibly just one neoreactionary, who has I think had two different accounts banned for doing this.)
WAIT. NO. I have a good guess as to why and have for a few months, and I have not been clear about my motives.
What I really want is for the downvoter to come out and say “I hold you in such contempt that I’m willing to skirt both LW policy and norms to deincentivize you from participating.”
I actually considered posting something like that, but could not figure out how to say it without it coming across as flagrant snark. Well. shrug
Noted. I’ll hazard a guess that it didn’t have anything much to do with the Rationality Diaries. -- Did you by any chance get involved in discussions of politics, gender or race, and take a position that would not generally be described as “really right-wing”? Most of the cases of mass-downvoting I’ve encountered on LW seem to have been done by neoreactionaries. (Quite possibly just one neoreactionary, who has I think had two different accounts banned for doing this.)
WAIT. NO. I have a good guess as to why and have for a few months, and I have not been clear about my motives.
What I really want is for the downvoter to come out and say “I hold you in such contempt that I’m willing to skirt both LW policy and norms to deincentivize you from participating.”
I actually considered posting something like that, but could not figure out how to say it without it coming across as flagrant snark. Well. shrug