1) Make several accounts.
2) Post comments with those accounts.
3) Use those accounts to upvote your own comments.
4) Once sufficient karma is achieved, downvote others like crazy.
Its sibling also has 14 undeserved upvotes, which seems strong evidence for 14 sockpuppet accounts being either used offensively on RobertLumley for some reason, or tested before bending the conversation more subtly in other threads.
This comment does not seem to warrant its current number of upvotes:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/8s6/video_qa_with_singularity_institute_executive/5g9o
Edit: For posterity, when I first observed the comment, it was at +14 karma.
Ah, I see how it works:
1) Make several accounts. 2) Post comments with those accounts. 3) Use those accounts to upvote your own comments. 4) Once sufficient karma is achieved, downvote others like crazy.
5) ???? 6) PROFIT!!
put a dot and two spaces instead of a ) after the numbers to make an ordered list.
shows up like:
this is first
this is second
EDIT: Doesn’t look all that impressive, but it is an html numbered list.
Its sibling also has 14 undeserved upvotes, which seems strong evidence for 14 sockpuppet accounts being either used offensively on RobertLumley for some reason, or tested before bending the conversation more subtly in other threads.
Yeah, but he also has some legitimate other posts to his name, which weakens that case.