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I know that there are several questions for this, but this is user-specific, so please do not consider this question as EXACT duplicate.

User Ham and Bacon was suspended, for "voting irregularities". What does it mean. Did he voted up himself with another account or is that because of his questions? His reputation increases fast and I see no problem with him. He always helped me with my problems & most of his answers are great

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    Might have been better to ask on their meta, as you'd have to have one of their mods here to answer this with details about that specific user.
    – user1228
    Commented Jul 13, 2011 at 16:25
  • Eh, you're getting answers. Wait a bit (you might get what you're looking for), maybe go flag something on their meta and ask them to come look over here. If you don't, flag for migration.
    – user1228
    Commented Jul 13, 2011 at 16:48
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    I could flag random post to tell them to come here? Isn't that dangerous?
    – genesis
    Commented Jul 13, 2011 at 16:49
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    No. You might lose some flag weight on the site, but that's nothing to worry about. No, seriously, don't worry about it. Flag one of your own posts, or one of the user in question's posts.
    – user1228
    Commented Jul 13, 2011 at 17:27
  • Related: Avoid the Streisand effect: be clear about the reason when suspending an account.
    – Pops
    Commented Jan 10, 2012 at 18:32
  • Wow he changed his name since but he's still banned!
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Apr 17, 2013 at 13:17

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The details of a suspension are private, the moderators involved won't tell you much about it. If the user in question wants to reveal anything himself, he is free to do so. But otherwise the exact details of the suspension will be considered private.

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    I do not want EXACT reason, but possible reasons how can user be suspended for "voting irregularities” Bit related: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/98331/…
    – genesis
    Commented Jul 13, 2011 at 16:32
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    @genesis In almost all cases this means the user created sock puppets to upvote his main account. It might also be used for repeated malicious downvoting sprees, but that is pretty rare.
    – Mad Scientist
    Commented Jul 13, 2011 at 16:42
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    @Fabian: AFAIK there isn't an official sanction on letting out details about a suspension.
    – user1228
    Commented Jul 13, 2011 at 17:29
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    @Won't I always thought it would violate the moderator agreement, I consider any information about a user that is not easily accessible to a non-moderator private. It is also not the kind of information I think anybody really needs to know, if the user in question wants to discuss it he is free to do so, else I think anything the mods could say won't help anyone.
    – Mad Scientist
    Commented Jul 13, 2011 at 21:28
  • Yes, I agree with Fabian. While I haven't seen an official sanction, I think this is one of those "implied" things. Sensitive information about users shouldn't be disclosed by moderators to the community at large unless absolutely necessary. However, the user in question is free to do so (or grant permission) at his or her own choice.
    – Cody Gray
    Commented Jul 14, 2011 at 3:56
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    @CodyGray: You can, however, see that a user has been suspended, and the reason why. There isn't much information left to know at this point. This user posted many low quality questions, that one made a rude comment, the other sockpuppeted. What else is there to say? The only advantage mods have is that they can see a user's history. Everything else is out in the open.
    – user1228
    Commented Jul 14, 2011 at 13:36
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Voting irregularities include also votes done from a user (who could not be even using two different accounts) to other users.
Suppose a user up-votes twenty posts made from the same user in a minute; the system will detect the situation, and automatically remove the votes.

The same applies to other voting patterns including, as you said, a user who uses two different accounts to vote other users, or to vote (from a secondary account) the posts created with the main account. (In short, the second case would be a way for the user to vote himself.)

If the user keeps doing the same thing more than once, then moderators would temporary suspended the account.

As down-votes on questions don't influence the reputation of who votes, in the same way up-votes do, you could not notice any change in the reputation of who has been caught with vote irregularities.

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  • so it was probably system ?
    – genesis
    Commented Jul 13, 2011 at 16:30
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    I don't think it is automatic. As far as I know, an account suspension is never automatic, except for suspension from asking questions on an SE site.
    – avpaderno
    Commented Jul 13, 2011 at 16:35
  • Little bit related: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/98331/… might this be exactly that reason?
    – genesis
    Commented Jul 13, 2011 at 16:42
  • @genesis I think it's not that the reason, also because there are few badges that you get basing on your how many times you vote.
    – avpaderno
    Commented Jul 13, 2011 at 16:56
  • but downvotes do influence the reputation of the voter don't they? they get a -1 and the other i suppose gets a -2
    – barlop
    Commented May 13, 2012 at 21:34
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    @barlop If you down-vote a question, your reputation doesn't change; it changes only if you down-vote an answer.
    – avpaderno
    Commented May 14, 2012 at 0:54

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