Or limit the number of votes one person can give to another within a time period. I think most vendetta voting happens in the heat of the moment. I don’t like not being able to vote old comments, or skewing the voting on either side.
In the only cases I’ve seen where I’ve had grounds for suspicion about who was doing the karmassassination, the person I thought was the culprit was a high-karma long-established LWer.
(But there is some bias here; such people are likely to be more salient as candidates for who the culprit is. And in no case have I been very sure who was responsible.)
Or limit the number of votes one person can give to another within a time period. I think most vendetta voting happens in the heat of the moment. I don’t like not being able to vote old comments, or skewing the voting on either side.
I like this fix. If the mass voters tend to have low karma, you could also make this a fix that only applies to people below some karma threshold.
In the only cases I’ve seen where I’ve had grounds for suspicion about who was doing the karmassassination, the person I thought was the culprit was a high-karma long-established LWer.
(But there is some bias here; such people are likely to be more salient as candidates for who the culprit is. And in no case have I been very sure who was responsible.)
I think even the best of us are susceptible to the keyboard warrior berserk mode.