This may be somewhat off-topic, but I’ve been noticing for some time that your comments frequently receive seemingly “random” downvotes—that is to say, downvotes that appear to be there for no good reason. As an example, the comment that I am replying to right now has a karma score of −1 at the time of posting, despite not being clearly mistaken or in violation of some LW social norm. Checking your profile reveals that your total karma score is in the negatives, despite the fact that you seem like a fairly well-read person, as well as a long-time user of LW. Does anyone have any idea why this is the case?
Yikes, you’re right. I had noticed something odd, but forgot to look into it. Dangit.
I’m pretty sure this is somebody going to the trouble of downvoting every comment of mine, which has happened before.
It’s against the rules, so I’ll ask a mad to look into it; but obviously, if someone cares enough about something I’m doing or wrong about this much, please, PM me. I can’t interpret you through meaningless downvotes, but I’ll probably stop whatever is bothering you if I know what it is.
That usually indicates that someone’s targeting the user for systematic downvoting, although this is the first time I’ve heard of it driving someone’s score into the negatives. The last (and, to my knowledge, only) user that was proven to engage in that sort of voting behavior got banned for it, but it’s next to impossible to get someone to stay gone if they don’t want to with the administrative tools we have available.
Alternately, we have a fundie floating around who’s upset with MugaSofer’s portrayal of their sect, although our demographics are such that that’s probably not the most likely option.
A quick scan of the last couple of pages of MugaSofer’s comments seems to indicate that the last handful of comments have not received negative votes, and a long sequence of comments before that have consistently received a single negative vote each, which looks like systematic downvoting to me (by someone who hasn’t yet caught up) but of course is not remotely definitive.
That said, the net balance of them is generally positive, which means the negative balance isn’t accounted for either way.
I can give you a little more data—this has happened before, which is why I’m in the negatives. Which I guess makes it more likely to happen again, if I’m that annoying :/
It turned out to be a different person to the famous case, they were reasonable and explained their (accurate) complaint via PM. Probably not the same person this time, but if it happened once …
This may be somewhat off-topic, but I’ve been noticing for some time that your comments frequently receive seemingly “random” downvotes—that is to say, downvotes that appear to be there for no good reason. As an example, the comment that I am replying to right now has a karma score of −1 at the time of posting, despite not being clearly mistaken or in violation of some LW social norm. Checking your profile reveals that your total karma score is in the negatives, despite the fact that you seem like a fairly well-read person, as well as a long-time user of LW. Does anyone have any idea why this is the case?
Yikes, you’re right. I had noticed something odd, but forgot to look into it. Dangit.
I’m pretty sure this is somebody going to the trouble of downvoting every comment of mine, which has happened before.
It’s against the rules, so I’ll ask a mad to look into it; but obviously, if someone cares enough about something I’m doing or wrong about this much, please, PM me. I can’t interpret you through meaningless downvotes, but I’ll probably stop whatever is bothering you if I know what it is.
That usually indicates that someone’s targeting the user for systematic downvoting, although this is the first time I’ve heard of it driving someone’s score into the negatives. The last (and, to my knowledge, only) user that was proven to engage in that sort of voting behavior got banned for it, but it’s next to impossible to get someone to stay gone if they don’t want to with the administrative tools we have available.
Alternately, we have a fundie floating around who’s upset with MugaSofer’s portrayal of their sect, although our demographics are such that that’s probably not the most likely option.
A quick scan of the last couple of pages of MugaSofer’s comments seems to indicate that the last handful of comments have not received negative votes, and a long sequence of comments before that have consistently received a single negative vote each, which looks like systematic downvoting to me (by someone who hasn’t yet caught up) but of course is not remotely definitive.
That said, the net balance of them is generally positive, which means the negative balance isn’t accounted for either way.
I can give you a little more data—this has happened before, which is why I’m in the negatives. Which I guess makes it more likely to happen again, if I’m that annoying :/
It turned out to be a different person to the famous case, they were reasonable and explained their (accurate) complaint via PM. Probably not the same person this time, but if it happened once …