Oh, you guys think OUR 1-bombers are a problem...

[Duleigh]

The vote rate at best is one in a hundred views. If you allowed account names only to vote, that would drop to one in two or three hundred and be utterly meaningless. Less than noise on any kind of measurement scale.

We all get vote bombs, we all get votes swept, no-one gets advantaged or disadvantaged in the long run. Paranoia about anons voting or commenting is ridiculous, really, just means people haven't thought it through. Or haven't been around long enough not to care.

Or... folk are getting low votes for a reason, but they don't want to think about that. Ooo, you're not allowed to say that, EB.

I've been here for 19 years and I've never seen such a thing here until recently. NOBODY suddenly starts down voting a single story out of a series of 20 stories, and the rest of the stories remain untouched without nefarious intentions or @Manu's bots start going crazy. If you think it's just paranoia, I'll gladly share my data with you - I keep track of all my data every day going back at least three years and it's not paranoia. Claiming paranoia shows that it's not affecting you, you just don't notice, or you never made the effort to listen to your fellow authors.

 

[GuiltyCowboy]

Back when you ran your mouth and then found people waiting outside for you, people were much more careful with what they said.

An armed society is a polite society.

An erotica forum is the last place I imagined I’d see people arguing in favour of dueling!

What else could we bring back I wonder…Bloodletting to release bad vapours, perhaps? Augury? What about foot-binding?

 

[Kelliezgirl]

An erotica forum is the last place I imagined I’d see people arguing in favour of dueling!

What else could we bring back I wonder…Bloodletting to release bad vapours, perhaps? Augury? What about foot-binding?

It's not so much the actual dueling, as the threat of dueling. People behave better when there is a measure of accountability.

 

[GuiltyCowboy]

It's not so much the actual dueling, as the threat of dueling. People behave better when there is a measure of accountability.

No, I get it. If you don’t want people to sew diamonds into their velvet sleeves, you don’t actually need sumptuary laws, you just need the threat of them.

But seriously, dueling was kind of sexy, wasn’t it: a bit of law and order before breakfast, an ill-considered comment spiraling into violence, the maiming for life, perhaps even a few orphaned children…

 

[Kelliezgirl]

No, I get it. If you don’t want people to sew diamonds into their velvet sleeves, you don’t actually need sumptuary laws, you just need the threat of them.

But seriously, dueling was kind of sexy, wasn’t it: a bit of law and order before breakfast, an ill-considered comment spiraling into violence, the maiming for life, perhaps even a few orphaned children…

Dead sexy.

 

[lc69hunter]

This doesn't even touch the political side of things "So and so's ad was left/right wing" we're going to boycott and review bomb them!

Blessed be the internet for creating an entire society that needs a slap in the mouth.

I used to think that LW was the cesspool of Lit, but have changed my mind. It is politics