You realize that when you edit your comments, an asterisk shows up? Because I tire of your rather boring and predictable approach to Dark Arts, I’ll go ahead and head this one off: I didn’t downvote all of your previous posts and comments, I downvoted those here, in this post, where you were spamming. Additionally, a lazy look through your profile turns up several posts and comments which, quite definitively, were not downvoted. If your upvotes have taken a shock, it’s because of your behavior, not a downvote bot.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/mvw/improving_the_effectiveness_of_effective_altruism/ for one example of a non-downvoted post from the first page of your posts. Given your rather blatant use of sockpuppets (or people from your organization told to upvote your posts/comments, which is the same thing as far as I’m concerned) for manipulating voting, the fact that it may get downvoted after I post this should not be taken as evidence by the audience of anything.
How do I know you’re using sockpuppets or human analogues? Because your upvotes are consistent across a given timeframe without regard to comment quality. Which is also why you noticed the fact that some of your 4-upvote comments were downvoted, because you worked to get them to 4.
ETA: See the asterisk?
Also, any administrators are welcome to check my upvote/downvote history. If necessary I’ll provide my password to an administrator to verify. (I’m not worried about being locked out of my account, because I can easily accumulate more upvotes, and anybody who dislikes me enough to want to do that probably wouldn’t desire me to lose my heard-earned reputation for being an annoying blowhard.)
Glad to see that whoever downvoted my previous submissions and comments happened to miss one, nice to know that. However, when my karma suddenly starts going down rapidly and goes down by a 100+ points, it generally indicates a downvoting wave.
Yup, I know that an asterisk shows up when I make edits. Thus, when I make any major edits, or when someone already responded to my comment, I add an EDIT note to them. When I make minor adjustments for grammar/spelling/phrasing, and when someone did not yet respond to my comment, I do not.
You realize that when you edit your comments, an asterisk shows up? Because I tire of your rather boring and predictable approach to Dark Arts, I’ll go ahead and head this one off: I didn’t downvote all of your previous posts and comments, I downvoted those here, in this post, where you were spamming. Additionally, a lazy look through your profile turns up several posts and comments which, quite definitively, were not downvoted. If your upvotes have taken a shock, it’s because of your behavior, not a downvote bot.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/mvw/improving_the_effectiveness_of_effective_altruism/ for one example of a non-downvoted post from the first page of your posts. Given your rather blatant use of sockpuppets (or people from your organization told to upvote your posts/comments, which is the same thing as far as I’m concerned) for manipulating voting, the fact that it may get downvoted after I post this should not be taken as evidence by the audience of anything.
How do I know you’re using sockpuppets or human analogues? Because your upvotes are consistent across a given timeframe without regard to comment quality. Which is also why you noticed the fact that some of your 4-upvote comments were downvoted, because you worked to get them to 4.
ETA: See the asterisk?
Also, any administrators are welcome to check my upvote/downvote history. If necessary I’ll provide my password to an administrator to verify. (I’m not worried about being locked out of my account, because I can easily accumulate more upvotes, and anybody who dislikes me enough to want to do that probably wouldn’t desire me to lose my heard-earned reputation for being an annoying blowhard.)
In cases like that, cite the post you are replying to.
Glad to see that whoever downvoted my previous submissions and comments happened to miss one, nice to know that. However, when my karma suddenly starts going down rapidly and goes down by a 100+ points, it generally indicates a downvoting wave.
Yup, I know that an asterisk shows up when I make edits. Thus, when I make any major edits, or when someone already responded to my comment, I add an EDIT note to them. When I make minor adjustments for grammar/spelling/phrasing, and when someone did not yet respond to my comment, I do not.
Really.