Additionally if you look at advancedatheist’s profile he is close to straddling 50% upvotes vs downvotes, as do an extremely large fraction of his posts as you would expect from the upvote brigade going until they just barely cancel out the downvotes, and the upvotes always come after the downvotes. Observed many times myself with things id responded to thatd gone heavily invisible universally negative going to roundabout plus 3 or 4 and then staying there as the percent positive edges ever closer to 50 percent and the inferred number of votes climbs. Id call the existence of said upvote brigade pretty much an established fact. Then combine it with AA’s habit of injecting non sequiter references to popular nrx pua etc brigade topics where they make zero sense to bring up… AA and friends are trolling us. I estimate that at least a quarter and possibly more than a third his posts in the last few months exhibit this behavior at some point, though its difficult to find a good sampling because of the way downvoted comments disappear from user pages and some of the brigaded posts subsequently slip down.
Edit: further brigade evidence. I got a mass downvote blast spread across many posts in November shortly after calling Anissimov on some of his bullshit (in one of my most upvoted comments of all time).
Yeah, I am starting to think AA sounds more like an insane troll caricature of NRx. What I find disappointing is that AA is doing this using the same username as he uses for posting actual useful stuff about cryonics and life extention, cos he has to realise he’s making these areas look bad by association. (I really don’t like guilt by association, but the halo effect is a thing)
Its certainly not helping NRx either, cos firstly getting caught using upvote brigades shows they can’t win a fair argument and secondly getting caught using upvote brigades shows they are incompetent enough to get caught.
calling Anissimov on some of his bullshit (in one of my most upvoted comments of all time)
Was that when I said it was bizzare that Anissimov regards transexuals (0.1% of the population) to be a threat, he denied this was his attitude, I apologised, and then you argued that he had been trying to expel Justine Tunney from NRx because she’s trans, and a massive argument developed?
Huh, that was you. That was the time yes, though I was more reacting to him saying something along the lines of ‘when have I ever spoken about the dangers of gays and transsexuals’ and I did a google search and found a very clear example example in literally 20 seconds that I linked to and quoted and got upvoted for, and me being irritated at the fact that he was misdirecting people in a hilariously obvious fashion by using that controversy that I still don’t quite understand to give false impressions about and misrepresent himself and his posse. I gave very nearly zero shits about the particular internal controversy, though its far from clear to me how anyone can read anything from that guy and come to a different conclusion especially considering you can’t trust him to talk about himself accurately.
I do know that disgust with that whole thread and the people that cropped up both there and all over other comment threads shortly thereafter significantly increased the length of time my sabbatical from this site for the purposes of manuscript writing lasted. Took people talking big bang cosmology to tempt me back.
Additionally if you look at advancedatheist’s profile he is close to straddling 50% upvotes vs downvotes, as do an extremely large fraction of his posts as you would expect from the upvote brigade going until they just barely cancel out the downvotes, and the upvotes always come after the downvotes. Observed many times myself with things id responded to thatd gone heavily invisible universally negative going to roundabout plus 3 or 4 and then staying there as the percent positive edges ever closer to 50 percent and the inferred number of votes climbs. Id call the existence of said upvote brigade pretty much an established fact. Then combine it with AA’s habit of injecting non sequiter references to popular nrx pua etc brigade topics where they make zero sense to bring up… AA and friends are trolling us. I estimate that at least a quarter and possibly more than a third his posts in the last few months exhibit this behavior at some point, though its difficult to find a good sampling because of the way downvoted comments disappear from user pages and some of the brigaded posts subsequently slip down.
Edit: further brigade evidence. I got a mass downvote blast spread across many posts in November shortly after calling Anissimov on some of his bullshit (in one of my most upvoted comments of all time).
Yeah, I am starting to think AA sounds more like an insane troll caricature of NRx. What I find disappointing is that AA is doing this using the same username as he uses for posting actual useful stuff about cryonics and life extention, cos he has to realise he’s making these areas look bad by association. (I really don’t like guilt by association, but the halo effect is a thing) Its certainly not helping NRx either, cos firstly getting caught using upvote brigades shows they can’t win a fair argument and secondly getting caught using upvote brigades shows they are incompetent enough to get caught.
Was that when I said it was bizzare that Anissimov regards transexuals (0.1% of the population) to be a threat, he denied this was his attitude, I apologised, and then you argued that he had been trying to expel Justine Tunney from NRx because she’s trans, and a massive argument developed?
Huh, that was you. That was the time yes, though I was more reacting to him saying something along the lines of ‘when have I ever spoken about the dangers of gays and transsexuals’ and I did a google search and found a very clear example example in literally 20 seconds that I linked to and quoted and got upvoted for, and me being irritated at the fact that he was misdirecting people in a hilariously obvious fashion by using that controversy that I still don’t quite understand to give false impressions about and misrepresent himself and his posse. I gave very nearly zero shits about the particular internal controversy, though its far from clear to me how anyone can read anything from that guy and come to a different conclusion especially considering you can’t trust him to talk about himself accurately.
I do know that disgust with that whole thread and the people that cropped up both there and all over other comment threads shortly thereafter significantly increased the length of time my sabbatical from this site for the purposes of manuscript writing lasted. Took people talking big bang cosmology to tempt me back.