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  • H honey the codewitch

    There is some person on the ESP32 subreddit, that since I've been going there over the past several years, appears to religiously downvote every new post. It appears that's all they do, every day, day in day out. I don't really care, but I *do* notice. It's hard not to given how reliable it is. Sometimes I like to try to crawl around inside his head and spend a day in the life, if you will. I come away from it with a more realistic view toward people. And yes, I realize it could be a bot, but it doesn't really change my view of the person who wrote it. All that effort for what? :laugh:

    To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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    theoldfool
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    Back in the good old days, they would have just pulled the wings off fly's.

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    • H honey the codewitch

      There is some person on the ESP32 subreddit, that since I've been going there over the past several years, appears to religiously downvote every new post. It appears that's all they do, every day, day in day out. I don't really care, but I *do* notice. It's hard not to given how reliable it is. Sometimes I like to try to crawl around inside his head and spend a day in the life, if you will. I come away from it with a more realistic view toward people. And yes, I realize it could be a bot, but it doesn't really change my view of the person who wrote it. All that effort for what? :laugh:

      To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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      PIEBALDconsult
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      I expect that such a system can be taught to detect patterns in members' behavior and deal with them appropriately. (Provided the developers wish to do so.) As you know, here, on CP, the reputation system has the ability to give some members a higher level of influence over others and some votes will be totally ignored when calculating the ratings of posts. As well as requiring a comment to vote "negative". But CP is written by developers for developers. I don't know whether or not the algorithm here detects members who vote overly positive or overly negative, but it can be done. Other systems, I think do only the minimum and don't care about abuses. The CP developers are simply the best in the biz. :java:

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      • H honey the codewitch

        There is some person on the ESP32 subreddit, that since I've been going there over the past several years, appears to religiously downvote every new post. It appears that's all they do, every day, day in day out. I don't really care, but I *do* notice. It's hard not to given how reliable it is. Sometimes I like to try to crawl around inside his head and spend a day in the life, if you will. I come away from it with a more realistic view toward people. And yes, I realize it could be a bot, but it doesn't really change my view of the person who wrote it. All that effort for what? :laugh:

        To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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        Daniel Pfeffer
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        ... I think on the existence and popularity of Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, etc. :sigh:

        Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

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        • H honey the codewitch

          There is some person on the ESP32 subreddit, that since I've been going there over the past several years, appears to religiously downvote every new post. It appears that's all they do, every day, day in day out. I don't really care, but I *do* notice. It's hard not to given how reliable it is. Sometimes I like to try to crawl around inside his head and spend a day in the life, if you will. I come away from it with a more realistic view toward people. And yes, I realize it could be a bot, but it doesn't really change my view of the person who wrote it. All that effort for what? :laugh:

          To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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          Mike Hankey
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          Years ago, here on CPP there used to be a competition to keep your article on the front page so people would down vote other peoples articles so that it yours would move down in popularity and fall from the list. If I remember right it was like a "Most Popular" list on the Home page.

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          • M Mike Hankey

            Years ago, here on CPP there used to be a competition to keep your article on the front page so people would down vote other peoples articles so that it yours would move down in popularity and fall from the list. If I remember right it was like a "Most Popular" list on the Home page.

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            PIEBALDconsult
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            Yeah, that sort of thing just drives the wrong behavior. So many people don't take human nature into account.

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              Yeah, that sort of thing just drives the wrong behavior. So many people don't take human nature into account.

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              Slacker007
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              People also behave in a manner on the internet that they would otherwise not behave in person to person - including myself. I think we are all guilty of this type of behavior online, in one way or another, at some time past, present, future.

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              • H honey the codewitch

                There is some person on the ESP32 subreddit, that since I've been going there over the past several years, appears to religiously downvote every new post. It appears that's all they do, every day, day in day out. I don't really care, but I *do* notice. It's hard not to given how reliable it is. Sometimes I like to try to crawl around inside his head and spend a day in the life, if you will. I come away from it with a more realistic view toward people. And yes, I realize it could be a bot, but it doesn't really change my view of the person who wrote it. All that effort for what? :laugh:

                To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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                Lost User
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                There's often an old boys' network lurking somewhere. Usurpers beware.

                "Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I

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                • H honey the codewitch

                  There is some person on the ESP32 subreddit, that since I've been going there over the past several years, appears to religiously downvote every new post. It appears that's all they do, every day, day in day out. I don't really care, but I *do* notice. It's hard not to given how reliable it is. Sometimes I like to try to crawl around inside his head and spend a day in the life, if you will. I come away from it with a more realistic view toward people. And yes, I realize it could be a bot, but it doesn't really change my view of the person who wrote it. All that effort for what? :laugh:

                  To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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                  Lost User
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                  We can pretend it isn't, but there's a war. After the US attacked Nordstream, things changed.

                  honey the codewitch wrote:

                  I come away from it with a more realistic view toward people

                  :laugh:

                  Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                    We can pretend it isn't, but there's a war. After the US attacked Nordstream, things changed.

                    honey the codewitch wrote:

                    I come away from it with a more realistic view toward people

                    :laugh:

                    Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                    Slacker007
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                    So, down votes on a subreddit by an obvious pimple faced 14 year old troll, is somehow caused by the world's war with Russia? WT actual F :sigh:

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                    • L Lost User

                      We can pretend it isn't, but there's a war. After the US attacked Nordstream, things changed.

                      honey the codewitch wrote:

                      I come away from it with a more realistic view toward people

                      :laugh:

                      Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                      0x01AA
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                      Better stop this.

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                      • S Slacker007

                        So, down votes on a subreddit by an obvious pimple faced 14 year old troll, is somehow caused by the world's war with Russia? WT actual F :sigh:

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                        0x01AA
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                        Better stop this.

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                        • S Slacker007

                          So, down votes on a subreddit by an obvious pimple faced 14 year old troll, is somehow caused by the world's war with Russia? WT actual F :sigh:

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                          fgs1963
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                          Ummm... please don't respond to our resident 14 year old pimple faced troll. :rolleyes:

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                          • H honey the codewitch

                            There is some person on the ESP32 subreddit, that since I've been going there over the past several years, appears to religiously downvote every new post. It appears that's all they do, every day, day in day out. I don't really care, but I *do* notice. It's hard not to given how reliable it is. Sometimes I like to try to crawl around inside his head and spend a day in the life, if you will. I come away from it with a more realistic view toward people. And yes, I realize it could be a bot, but it doesn't really change my view of the person who wrote it. All that effort for what? :laugh:

                            To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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                            Lost User
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                            honey the codewitch wrote:

                            When I find myself getting too optimistic about humanity

                            Remember me. :-\

                            Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                              Better stop this.

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                              Lost User
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                              Tell that to the US. We did not start the fire.

                              Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                                So, down votes on a subreddit by an obvious pimple faced 14 year old troll, is somehow caused by the world's war with Russia? WT actual F :sigh:

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                                Lost User
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                                I'm too old to reddit. Care to explain?

                                Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                                  Ummm... please don't respond to our resident 14 year old pimple faced troll. :rolleyes:

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                                  Lost User
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                                  I am the established troll here after TrollSlayer retired. There cannot be any contestant! Noes, I say!

                                  Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                                  • H honey the codewitch

                                    There is some person on the ESP32 subreddit, that since I've been going there over the past several years, appears to religiously downvote every new post. It appears that's all they do, every day, day in day out. I don't really care, but I *do* notice. It's hard not to given how reliable it is. Sometimes I like to try to crawl around inside his head and spend a day in the life, if you will. I come away from it with a more realistic view toward people. And yes, I realize it could be a bot, but it doesn't really change my view of the person who wrote it. All that effort for what? :laugh:

                                    To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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                                    englebart
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                                    In the old days, you had the people who would unplug the video games because they could not beat the top ten scores! Same gene, different expression.

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                                    • H honey the codewitch

                                      There is some person on the ESP32 subreddit, that since I've been going there over the past several years, appears to religiously downvote every new post. It appears that's all they do, every day, day in day out. I don't really care, but I *do* notice. It's hard not to given how reliable it is. Sometimes I like to try to crawl around inside his head and spend a day in the life, if you will. I come away from it with a more realistic view toward people. And yes, I realize it could be a bot, but it doesn't really change my view of the person who wrote it. All that effort for what? :laugh:

                                      To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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                                      Super Lloyd
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                                      It makes them feel happier to have an outlet for their pentup rage at the unfair world? I guess...

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                                      • D Daniel Pfeffer

                                        ... I think on the existence and popularity of Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, etc. :sigh:

                                        Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

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                                        jmaida
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                                        you may a point.

                                        "A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger

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                                        • H honey the codewitch

                                          There is some person on the ESP32 subreddit, that since I've been going there over the past several years, appears to religiously downvote every new post. It appears that's all they do, every day, day in day out. I don't really care, but I *do* notice. It's hard not to given how reliable it is. Sometimes I like to try to crawl around inside his head and spend a day in the life, if you will. I come away from it with a more realistic view toward people. And yes, I realize it could be a bot, but it doesn't really change my view of the person who wrote it. All that effort for what? :laugh:

                                          To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.

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                                          Kenneth Haugland
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                                          If you write your own posts, you are not reading theirs. I suspect that is the problem ;P

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