Timeline for The vote fraud script breaks legitimate polling questions - A serial downvoter's lament
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:30 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Mar 7, 2016 at 18:06 | comment | added | Daniel | This may warrant revisiting for non-StackOverflow sites. Today I found a serial down-vote reversal for a user who answered this question at LifeHacks 5 times. | |
| Feb 28, 2015 at 21:42 | comment | added | nicael | Please pretty please don't decline! meta.stackexchange.com/a/250404 | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 13:39 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
Migration of MSO links to MSE links
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| Oct 16, 2012 at 19:57 | comment | added | Robert Cartaino | @JeffAtwood That's a great idea and frankly better than all the hack-y workarounds we've considered to date. | |
| Oct 16, 2012 at 14:00 | comment | added | Adam Lear StaffMod | @JeffAtwood I think we did that for evals once. Can't recall why it was only once, though. Something to revisit while /review is taking shape. :) | |
| Oct 16, 2012 at 8:41 | comment | added | Mad Scientist | I can understand the argument that it is not worth fixing for this edge case, how you allocate your resources is the decision of SE and if you can find an easy workaround that is fine. And I think that having the script work on pages instead of posts is better and an elegant solution to both the evaluations and the Area 51 problem. | |
| Oct 16, 2012 at 7:07 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | One possibly useful hack, post all answers then disassociate owner from them. Voila, all answers are from the community user and safe for an infinity of serial voting, forever. A meta only employee function to strip owner from all answers seems fairly safe to me. | |
| Oct 15, 2012 at 23:46 | comment | added | Adam Lear StaffMod | @MadScientist It is still such a narrow edge case that it's not worth pursuing. Here's a SEDE query that lists all questions on Stack Overflow that have 3+ answers by the same user: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/82553. That's 2,000-ish questions out of 3,800,000+. Some of these predate the comment system, so the whole thing would benefit from a flag over voting. It is possible that somewhere in there are questions where you'd want to vote instead of flag, edit, or comment, but they're very rare. Bottom line is, if you vote on posts over users, you should never hit this. | |
| Oct 15, 2012 at 21:44 | comment | added | Adam Lear StaffMod | @YannisRizos Oh yeah, forgot about that... I think that request makes sense. It should be posted separately, though, instead of lost in the comments here. | |
| Oct 15, 2012 at 21:27 | comment | added | yannis | How about Area51? | |
| Oct 15, 2012 at 20:54 | comment | added | Mad Scientist | I fundamentally disagree. Voting on the same page is not serial voting. I agree that there is usually not a reason to post so many answers to the same question, and that is exactly the reason why I should be able to downvote every single one of those answers without my votes being reversed. | |
| Oct 15, 2012 at 20:38 | history | answered | Adam LearStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |