I should note that I have never actually been in your shoes. I haven’t had any cases where there was unambiguous use of bulk sockpuppets. I’ve only been downvoted via breadth (up to 50 different comments from my recent history) and usually by only one person at a time (occasionally two or three but probably not two or three that go as far as 50 comments at the same time).
(This was also one of the reasons I wasn’t so sure it was karmassassination)
That would really mess with your mind if you were in a situation where you could not yet reliably model community preferences (and be personally confident in your model despite immediate evidence.)
Take it as a high compliment! Nobody has ever cared enough about me to make half a dozen new accounts. What did you do to deserve that?
Basically it boiled down to this: I was suggesting that one reason some people might donate to more than one charity is that they’re risk averse and want to make sure they’re doing some good, instead of trying to help and unluckily choosing an unpredictably bad charity. It was admittedly a pretty pedantic point, but someone apparently didn’t like it.
Basically it boiled down to this: I was suggesting that one reason some people might donate to more than one charity is that they’re risk averse and want to make sure they’re doing some good, instead of trying to help and unluckily choosing an unpredictably bad charity. It was admittedly a pretty pedantic point, but someone apparently didn’t like it.
That seems to be something I would agree with, with an explicit acknowledgement that it relies on a combination of risk aversion and non-consequentialist values.
I should note that I have never actually been in your shoes. I haven’t had any cases where there was unambiguous use of bulk sockpuppets. I’ve only been downvoted via breadth (up to 50 different comments from my recent history) and usually by only one person at a time (occasionally two or three but probably not two or three that go as far as 50 comments at the same time).
That would really mess with your mind if you were in a situation where you could not yet reliably model community preferences (and be personally confident in your model despite immediate evidence.)
Take it as a high compliment! Nobody has ever cared enough about me to make half a dozen new accounts. What did you do to deserve that?
It was this thread.
Basically it boiled down to this: I was suggesting that one reason some people might donate to more than one charity is that they’re risk averse and want to make sure they’re doing some good, instead of trying to help and unluckily choosing an unpredictably bad charity. It was admittedly a pretty pedantic point, but someone apparently didn’t like it.
That seems to be something I would agree with, with an explicit acknowledgement that it relies on a combination of risk aversion and non-consequentialist values.
It didn’t really help that I made my point very poorly.