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Now this is interesting to me...

I happened to get a random downvote shortly after you posted this, and decided I'd spend a minute looking into this loophole again. I identified a suspect and deleted the answer, then wandered over to that user's rep page, where I soon saw this:

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which surprised me, because that seems to be lasting proof positive of a downvote.

This does, howeverHowever, appear to only be visibleI tried later to the subject ofreproduce this effect by deleting the downvote; I don't see a similarsame post, and saw no such entry on the rep page of the user who downvoted you, so it seems that this was just a hiccup. It would definitely have been a bug had it been reproducible.

Now this is interesting to me...

I happened to get a random downvote shortly after you posted this, and decided I'd spend a minute looking into this loophole again. I identified a suspect and deleted the answer, then wandered over to that user's rep page, where I soon saw this:

enter image description here

which surprised me, because that seems to be lasting proof positive of a downvote.

This does, however, appear to only be visible to the subject of the downvote; I don't see a similar entry on the rep page of the user who downvoted you.

Now this is interesting to me...

I happened to get a random downvote shortly after you posted this, and decided I'd spend a minute looking into this loophole again. I identified a suspect and deleted the answer, then wandered over to that user's rep page, where I soon saw this:

enter image description here

which surprised me, because that seems to be lasting proof positive of a downvote.

However, I tried later to reproduce this effect by deleting the same post, and saw no such entry, so it seems that this was just a hiccup. It would definitely have been a bug had it been reproducible.

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jscs
jscs
  • 24.7k
  • 11
  • 77
  • 132

Now this is interesting to me...

I happened to get a random downvote shortly after you posted this, and decided I'd spend a minute looking into this loophole again. I identified a suspect and deleted the answer, then wandered over to that user's rep page, where I soon saw this:

enter image description here

which surprised me, because that seems to be lasting proof positive of a downvote.

This does, however, appear to only be visible to the subject of the downvote; I don't see a similar entry on the rep page of the user who downvoted you.