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Can someone tell why dislike mobs are worse than, say, a boycott? I don't get why anyone other than those directly impacted are so against groups of people stat
by tomatotomato37 8y ago
Can someone tell why dislike mobs are worse than, say, a boycott? I don't get why anyone other than those directly impacted are so against groups of people stating they don't like [thing]
- theoh 8y agoEven Paul Graham thinks voting rings are a problem, to the extent that he said (somewhere, I can't remember where) that a substantial part of the HN codebase is dedicated to measures against spam, voting rings, and other abuses. Steps to prevent voting rings were among the top measures he deemed necessary. A dislike mob is just like a voting ring. Another dimension of the problem is the scenario where a user takes a dislike to someone else's comment, and goes through that other person's comment history, downvoting every one. That's obviously an abuse of the voting system and it makes sense to organize things so that it is minimized. (One way to do it is to set a time limit on voting on a given comment.)
- draw_down 8y agoDisagree, voting rings are for the mutual benefit of the members of the ring (scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours), while this is simply about being vindictive.