I think we are now properly defeated. The fundamental problem is that there’s only two of us mutually benefitting, so any group with more Karma than one of us can shut down the party.
While I would prefer for the forces of Social Coordination to win here, I would prefer they win against a real fight. Giving up so easily? Did you think for even five minutes? Shut up and do the impossible!!
I’ll note that the leaderboard doesn’t seem to notice the downvotes and so is still showing you and aphyer in the lead. This is likely a bug but at least you’re getting to have the goodest of hearts for a while for your effort. :-)
Oh, it definitely noticed the downvotes. We got about 100 karma each out of this thread, and then we lost it all and then some once people came along and started downvoting. We were both off the leaderboard entirely for a while after that.
While I would prefer for the forces of Social Coordination to win here, I would prefer they win against a real fight. Giving up so easily? Did you think for even five minutes? Shut up and do the impossible!!
My guess would be that they are upvoting some kind of post/comment which only shows up for those it is shared with. Some sites do allow these, though I’m not sure how to do this on lesswrong. I’ve already strong downvoted all of their public comments containing no value, so I guess they’ve won this time :(
EDIT: Looking around the UI I see that you can share drafts with people, maybe they’re upvoting each other’s drafts? (If that’s even possible)
Unfortunately, I don’t have the capacity to deal with this problem right now however serious, because I have much more pressing issues in the form of r/place.
Oh yeah, I started getting downvotes and now I see I’ve fallen quite a bit. I just noticed you two rose up quite high and I wondered what happened there!
I think we are now properly defeated. The fundamental problem is that there’s only two of us mutually benefitting, so any group with more Karma than one of us can shut down the party.
While I would prefer for the forces of Social Coordination to win here, I would prefer they win against a real fight. Giving up so easily? Did you think for even five minutes? Shut up and do the impossible!!
I’ll note that the leaderboard doesn’t seem to notice the downvotes and so is still showing you and aphyer in the lead. This is likely a bug but at least you’re getting to have the goodest of hearts for a while for your effort. :-)
Oh, it definitely noticed the downvotes. We got about 100 karma each out of this thread, and then we lost it all and then some once people came along and started downvoting. We were both off the leaderboard entirely for a while after that.
But what’s happening now?!? How is Aphyer suddenly at over $500 when most of their comments are now negative, and the positive ones not very high?
How?????
My guess would be that they are upvoting some kind of post/comment which only shows up for those it is shared with. Some sites do allow these, though I’m not sure how to do this on lesswrong. I’ve already strong downvoted all of their public comments containing no value, so I guess they’ve won this time :(
EDIT: Looking around the UI I see that you can share drafts with people, maybe they’re upvoting each other’s drafts? (If that’s even possible)
Don’t give up yet!!!
We can probably get the LW team to stop counting whatever they’re pulling.
We can recruit more people to try and balance things out.
EDIT: It appears something is happening… the leaderboards are shifting again...
Unfortunately, I don’t have the capacity to deal with this problem right now however serious, because I have much more pressing issues in the form of r/place.
Oh yeah, I started getting downvotes and now I see I’ve fallen quite a bit. I just noticed you two rose up quite high and I wondered what happened there!
We turned to the Light Side and gained a ton of karma by writing high-quality posts and comments, which were legitimately upvoted.
If so, then where are they???
I’ve been looking...