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Just noticed all new questions on SO getting a single up-vote each.

That looks rather suspicious - all upvoted within seconds of each other.

Is someone trying to achieve the Suffrage badge without looking at the merit of each question?

Here are some of the upvoted questions:

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    Try the Electorate badge
    – random
    Commented Jan 8, 2011 at 18:42
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    @random - fair point. Still, I would call this misuse.
    – Oded
    Commented Jan 8, 2011 at 18:45
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    @Oded hmm, maybe it's abuse, but there probably isn't much that can be done about it. It's hard to tell a frivolous question vote from a "real" one
    – Pekka
    Commented Jan 8, 2011 at 18:49
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    This problem is definitely as old as the Electorate badge. Suffrage amounts to at most one day and 30 votes of abuse; Electorate is 20 days and 600 votes.
    – Aarobot
    Commented Jan 8, 2011 at 18:51
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    @Aarobot yeah. The Electorate badge is a bad one anyway because of the "25% of votes must be on questions" mandate. That really sucks.
    – Pekka
    Commented Jan 8, 2011 at 18:55
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    @Pekka: I just don't vote for answers on any new sites, unless it's either really bad or really good.
    – Aarobot
    Commented Jan 8, 2011 at 18:56
  • Surely seeing multiple upvotes in a very short timespan is an indication of this phenomenon?
    – Oded
    Commented Jan 8, 2011 at 19:31
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    @Aarobot Great plan
    – Michael Mrozek
    Commented Jan 8, 2011 at 19:45
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    Perhaps increase the time limit between voting on two questions? I can't think of myself legitimately voting on two separate questions within a few seconds.
    – moinudin
    Commented Jan 8, 2011 at 19:53
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    Now as a dev you can dig in the old data and find out yourself. :D
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Jul 27, 2014 at 10:12

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That's a rather bold assumption you're assuming here :

Is someone trying to achieve Suffrage without looking at the merit of each question?

What's to say that s/he isn't trying to achieve the Electorate badge?

Users can vote however they like. It's their vote. Although it's definitely strongly recommended to vote on the quality of the post itself, there is nothing to stop a user from voting based on the direction of the wind that day.

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    I'll upvote this, even though I think you may have only answered for a revival / necromancer badge ;)
    – PeterJ
    Commented Jul 27, 2014 at 2:00
  • @PeterJ What about the Enlightened badge?
    – MTL
    Commented Jul 27, 2014 at 6:21
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    -1 the wind is definitely blowing east here today.
    – John Dvorak
    Commented Jul 27, 2014 at 10:21
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    @PeterJ upvoted your comment, even though I suspect you only commented to get the Pundit badge :-)
    – Eran
    Commented Jul 27, 2014 at 13:50

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