Timeline for Top user's answer victim of Reddit mob behavior
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| Jan 24, 2011 at 21:08 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | if you are still seeing random downvote patterns in 24-36 hours email me and I will fix it. | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 16:23 | comment | added | Uphill Luge | @ho1 - possibly, some reddit users vetted the rest of my posts to look for a pattern. The one time I saw this before however was triggered by a downvote on an old answer without the notoriety. | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 16:07 | comment | added | ho1 | @Hans: Couldn't that be the number of viewings on the question rather than the number of downvotes though? | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 16:03 | comment | added | Uphill Luge | @BalusC - not sure, counts as activity I guess. I've seen this once before, it is not new behavior. | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 15:58 | comment | added | user138231 | How do downvotes push answers back to home page? | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 14:47 | comment | added | Andomar | @Hans Passant: The suggestion for multi-threading might have been in the comment. I'm really just having a break from work with coffee, a waffle, and some Stack Overflow. If that is "shredding dignity", that must be a good thing ;) | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 14:42 | comment | added | Greg | IMO, the combination of the answer/comment was decidedly "not useful". | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 14:15 | comment | added | Uphill Luge | There's some serious irony behind this. All these downvotes were for old answers, it pushed them back to the home page. Where they got upvoted 8 times already. Even got a Nice Answer badge for one of them. It pays to be notorious. | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 13:24 | comment | added | Uphill Luge | @Andomar - re-read the answer. I quite explicitly recommended commenting out DoEvents. And merely suggested to "start thinking". On what planet is that not good advice to a beginning developer? Attack me for the offensive comment, but please leave me a shred of dignity on my expertise. | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 13:23 | comment | added | user50049 | @Pekka, I'd hardly describe down voting as 'violence', if only to avoid desensitizing the term's literal meaning. | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 13:15 | comment | added | Andomar | @Hans Passant: Imho, you really should not point a beginning VB developer to multi-threading. That is "unhelpful". | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 12:15 | comment | added | Arjan | Related "checkmark blackmailing" issue, where a user came back with a new question a month later: Removed accepted answer… what about the reputation? | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 11:35 | comment | added | Pekka | I don't think there was any validity to downvoting the original answer. I get angry when people leverage their "check mark power" to milk follow-up answers that weren't part of the original question, too. That doesn't mean the comment was okay, but there wasn't anything remotely in it to justify this kind of random mob violence. | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 11:34 | comment | added | Uphill Luge | @sham - I got 100 downvotes from SO users, not reddit users. | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 11:10 | comment | added | shamittomar | @Hans Passant: You had a bad day. Serial downvoting is seriously wrong. But, everyone of us knows how Reddit works. | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 10:27 | comment | added | Uphill Luge | @Andomar - There was not, it was a good answer. There was no hint whatsoever in the OP that DoEvents was the cause, I figured it out without it. The comment was dumb, it should have been flagged as offensive. Judging an answer by whomever posted it instead of its merit is fundamentally wrong. | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 10:16 | comment | added | Andomar | I'd hope you agree there was some validity to downvoting your original answer. What you post here is "serial downvoting", it will be corrected by a nightly script, or you can contact the moderators and they will remove the downvotes. | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 10:11 | comment | added | Uphill Luge | Could not fit them all, 25 total. Well, Jeff thought there was some validity to it, can't complain I guess. | |
| Jan 24, 2011 at 10:10 | history | answered | Uphill Luge | CC BY-SA 2.5 |