Well, you’re talking about the state of mind of the downvoter. Unfortunately, the technology to detect that isn’t available at the moment. What LW software can detect is that user X downvoted N1 comments by user Y on day 1, N2 comments on day 2, etc. As long as N is “a few”, I would be wary of drawing “mass-downvoting” conclusions from this pattern.
Also, I would recommend not getting into a technological arms race with people want to game the karma system.
This is the advantage of merely publicizing their behaviour rather than attempting to prevent it. Even if you get false positives or false negatives, the adverse consequences aren’t severe.
Well, you’re talking about the state of mind of the downvoter. Unfortunately, the technology to detect that isn’t available at the moment. What LW software can detect is that user X downvoted N1 comments by user Y on day 1, N2 comments on day 2, etc. As long as N is “a few”, I would be wary of drawing “mass-downvoting” conclusions from this pattern.
Also, I would recommend not getting into a technological arms race with people want to game the karma system.
This is the advantage of merely publicizing their behaviour rather than attempting to prevent it. Even if you get false positives or false negatives, the adverse consequences aren’t severe.