Then where is he getting all the karma? Is it possible there is a rogue mod mole feeding under-the-table karma to Eugine’s sock puppets using some clever hack?
Probably a few sockpuppets upvoting all his comments. Presumably they’re accounts he doesn’t reveal by commenting or mass-downvoting with them. You only need 10 karma to vote.
Evil mods seem like a poor explanation :-) but I suppose anything’s possible.
Probably a few sockpuppets upvoting all his comments
I wonder how many total accounts The Great Eugine Noir has at this point? 50+? I suppose he would only need to create a handful (~10-12) of “voting” puppets that could be used over and over again. Then he needs a steady supply of kamikaze comment puppets which, after vetting themselves artificially by posting legitimately useful rationality quotes, are inevitably banned once he actually starts voicing his opinion through them.
I don’t think that’s the whole story. Many, many of his comments, including very poor ones, get upvoted within minutes of being posted. In particular, at one point every single The_Lion2 comment had five or more upvotes.
Yes. He uses sockpuppets for voting, so presumably he uses them for upvoting himself as well. But most comments of his that I have seen I would expect to have positive (1 or 2) karma from anyone else as well, and if his comments were sufficiently horrible people would downvote him enough to overwhelm any amount of sockpuppets.
Then where is he getting all the karma? Is it possible there is a rogue mod mole feeding under-the-table karma to Eugine’s sock puppets using some clever hack?
Probably a few sockpuppets upvoting all his comments. Presumably they’re accounts he doesn’t reveal by commenting or mass-downvoting with them. You only need 10 karma to vote.
Evil mods seem like a poor explanation :-) but I suppose anything’s possible.
I’m looking for the sexiest explanation.
I wonder how many total accounts The Great Eugine Noir has at this point? 50+? I suppose he would only need to create a handful (~10-12) of “voting” puppets that could be used over and over again. Then he needs a steady supply of kamikaze comment puppets which, after vetting themselves artificially by posting legitimately useful rationality quotes, are inevitably banned once he actually starts voicing his opinion through them.
I wonder if Eugine has a favorite sock puppet?
My guess is fewer than 20. Probably more than 10, though.
He makes a bunch of comments that are good enough to get positive karma, though rarely stellar. Mostly semipolitical quotes in the quotes thread.
I don’t think that’s the whole story. Many, many of his comments, including very poor ones, get upvoted within minutes of being posted. In particular, at one point every single The_Lion2 comment had five or more upvotes.
Yes. He uses sockpuppets for voting, so presumably he uses them for upvoting himself as well. But most comments of his that I have seen I would expect to have positive (1 or 2) karma from anyone else as well, and if his comments were sufficiently horrible people would downvote him enough to overwhelm any amount of sockpuppets.