We have much better tools to detect downvoting of specific users, and unusual voting activity by a specific user, but if a topic only comes up occasionally and the users who vote on that topic also regularly vote on other things, I don’t know of any high-level statistics that would easily detect that, and I think it would have very substantial chilling effects if we were to start policing that kind of behavior.
There probably are technical solutions, but it’s a more tricky kind of problem than what LW 1.0 faced, and we haven’t built them.
I’d be more interested in tools that detected downvotes that occur before people started reading, on the basis of the title—because I’d give even odds that more than half of downvotes on this post were within 1 minute of opening it, on the basis of the title or reacting the the first paragraph—not due to the discussion of CEV.
We have much better tools to detect downvoting of specific users, and unusual voting activity by a specific user, but if a topic only comes up occasionally and the users who vote on that topic also regularly vote on other things, I don’t know of any high-level statistics that would easily detect that, and I think it would have very substantial chilling effects if we were to start policing that kind of behavior.
There probably are technical solutions, but it’s a more tricky kind of problem than what LW 1.0 faced, and we haven’t built them.
I’d be more interested in tools that detected downvotes that occur before people started reading, on the basis of the title—because I’d give even odds that more than half of downvotes on this post were within 1 minute of opening it, on the basis of the title or reacting the the first paragraph—not due to the discussion of CEV.