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249 questions linked to/from What is serial voting and how does it affect me?
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What can I do if I'm the victim of serial downvoting? [duplicate]
While browsing Stack Overflow, I noticed that I lost a lot of reputation:
Is this serial downvoting? Will it be corrected by a rep-recalculation? How often are those done?
Here's a second ...
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I was just attacked by an onslaught of downvotes! What do I do? [duplicate]
Checking my recent activity, I noticed that [nearly] all of my posts were downvoted within a short span of a few minutes. It seems as though I've been the victim of a systematic downvoting spree.
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"Spam Voting" - Should we stop it? [duplicate]
I've had a few concerns over a new form of "spam" - that is, through voting.
A while back, I had seen some wild reputation increases to my account, amongst others, that seemingly felt weird -...
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Serial upvoting reversed [duplicate]
What is the reason why I get -70 of Serial upvoting reversed on Stack Overflow, -70 of doing what? I read the document
http://meta.Stackoverflow.com/questions/123319/upcoming-reputation-history-...
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How does the SO voter fraud detection mechanism work? [duplicate]
A recent post on the Stack Overflow blog (Voter Fraud and You) states that the Stack Overflow team has implemented a voter fraud detection mechanism. I look at the user board and noticed at least one ...
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Serial negative group voting [duplicate]
For people who are trying to close this: Its Serial negative group voting..
I am aware of automatic detection script but looks like it fails in such scenarios.
Many times I was a victim of serial ...
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What should you do if you're serial downvoted & it isn't automatically reversed within 24 hours? [duplicate]
Example: Three days ago I was serial downvoted[?]
After these weren't automatically reversed, 24 hours later, I flagged one of the posts. It was eventually marked as helpful, but the downvotes ...
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is it 'wrong' to upvote lots of answers from the same author to grant them bonus rep? [duplicate]
I've recently come across a few really well written and researched answers contributed by low rep users.
I feel like my solitary upvote isn't sufficient reward for their efforts. (Yes, I know that ...
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How to act when you're being serial upvoted [duplicate]
I'm relatively new in StackOverflow, even though my account is 2 years old, I started actively contributing to site a few months ago.
I'm trying to do my best and while doing it, hoping to learn more ...
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Hey I just lost 350 points for "Serial upvoting reversed" [duplicate]
What is this? Can we please have some way of receiving an explanation? This seems like a system to punish people for leaving too many good answers. Although I did receive a lot of upvotes in a short ...
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Is it possible to "cheat" on SE sites? [duplicate]
What happens if a user has multiple accounts and keeps upvoting himself/someone else? Does that happen? Is there a system to stop it?
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What should I do when an unknown user keeps upvoting my answers? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is serial voting and how does it affect me?
First of all, I must say that I have no sock-puppet or any other similar ways to gain votes like telling my friends to upvote ...
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Serial upvoting reversed: I lost 0 reputation [duplicate]
Some goofball has been serial upvoting me for the past two days, and while I've sent out hunting parties to find the miscreant and taze him bro until he quits, I did notice an extreme oddity:
When ...
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Is it ok to upvote or downvote all the posts of one person regardless of their content? [duplicate]
I was wondering if it was ok to downvote or upvote all the threads made by one person for personal reasons regardless of the threads content ?
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User being downvoted for personal reasons [duplicate]
A couple days ago I asked this question concerning posting religious text in posts and refusing to edit them. Now because of the publicity of this user, I believe they are being downvoted for no other ...
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User revenge? All my questions were downvoted in the past hour [duplicate]
I asked this question on meta about 2 hours ago: User keeps getting banned, yet keeps making new accounts to ask questions
Since then it seems almost every one of my questions was downvoted once after ...
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Serial downvotes [duplicate]
I would like to report a massive downvote of answers of mine today as visible in my profile:
https://stackoverflow.com/users/29407/darin-dimitrov?tab=reputation&sort=time&StartDate=2013-05-08%...
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Stack overflow reversal voting algorithm unfair [duplicate]
I joined stackoverflow 4 months ago and got really excited (addicted too) on solving other people's issues and editing first posts etc... Day before yesterday I hit the 1k reputation bar but was ...
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What is a vote fraud? [duplicate]
I have heard about vote fraud.
What is it?
By which criteria is a vote declared as fraud?
How we can find out about these sorts of activity?
What are the consequences of it?
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What if I am ...
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Are serial upvotes detected? [duplicate]
Based on a tweet from Jon
Does the automated jerk detector also double as an automated nice-guy detector? I was under the impression it just blew out serial-downvotes.
What all is caught by the ...
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What do I do if I suspect someone has downvoted a lot of my posts? [duplicate]
Someone has downvoted a lot of my questions or answers.
What should I do?
How does the system prevent this?
How often does the system look for suspicious behavior?
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Reputation reversed from my account [duplicate]
Today I found that my 145 reputation deducted from my account so can any one help about this?
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Why are downvotes automatically removed? [duplicate]
Yesterday I downvoted a question for being unclear. Today I received a notification "Question Undownvoted".
Does the system undownvote questions/answers automatically? Did someone vote it up and was ...
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How many voting irregularities do we tolerate? [duplicate]
All names below are created and do not refer to any specific users or SE sites.
In the early days, when user W participated in SE site X, user W gained lots of "reputation" by plagiarising ...
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SO reputation score just plummeted? [duplicate]
Can anyone explain why my SO reputation just plummeted from just over 2,000 to 1,200? (User: ILMV).
I started with 1,997 points
Answered a question
Edited my answer a couple times
Received a up vote ...
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I know somebody who is downvoting my posts across all Stack Exchange sites [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What can I do if I’m the victim of serial downvoting?
What is serial voting and how does it affect me?
I know somebody who is downvoting my posts across all Stack Exchange ...
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Votes from same network deleted? [duplicate]
I am teaching my girlfriend, we are exchanging knowledge. She read my previous questions and upvoted some of them. Today all the reputation from that is deleted. Why? Is this a scam as she really ...
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Has my account been blacklisted? [duplicate]
I have an account on Stack Overflow. However, now I start to realize that I get constantly downvoted by the "serial upvote reversal" mechanism. So, I created a new account (this one) from a different ...
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Who is specifically targeting me? [duplicate]
I want to know who disliked me so much? I came to know that I was specifically targeted by someone on Physics Stack Exchange. So please let me know who that was.
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Extreme downvoting after changing best answer [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is serial voting and how does it affect me?
On the 7th of May, I changed the accepted answer of a question on Stackoverflow.
The following day this happened:
May 7
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What do I do when someone deliberately downvotes many of my answers? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What can I do if I’m the victim of serial downvoting?
What is serial voting and how does it affect me?
I followed a bunch of links here and found helpful advice on what to ...
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User is serially voting for me.. What to do? [duplicate]
Let me explain. There is a user with just 20 rep voting on every answer/comment I post on Stack Overflow. In my reputation overview I can see I'm not earning any rep anymore after just a few votes by ...
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Fighting Rage Downvotes [duplicate]
I just posted some feedback on a question about how it could be better, and about how it is too open ended (I've done this on a few questions now). Within a minute, 5 of my older, accepted, upvoted ...
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Huge and weird upvoting reversal [duplicate]
Yesterday I faced somebody's angry and have downvoted several times so I asked the support about the reversal for downvotes and they answered that works same way as the upvoting reversal. Nice, but ...
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Malicious Downvotes [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Preventing users from downvoting good answers to bad questions
What is serial voting and how does it affect me?
I believe a user is using malicious down voting as a tactic ...
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How to ask or claim or talk to a moderator? [duplicate]
I just want know if there is some way to talk or to claim something to a moderator/moderators if there is something I am not satisfied with. For example, a special room for moderators, an mailing ...
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What is the serial upvote detection heuristic? [duplicate]
I found out about serial upvoting detection today (lost 81 rep; I can't imagine how serial upvoting would result in that value, but let's ignore that for now). I decided to go on about my business of ...
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Is this serial up-voting? [duplicate]
This user asked a question recently. This is that question. There were quite a few answers to it and the OP went ahead and upvoted it, thanking everybody for their time and effort. Soon after the OP ...
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Is it feasible to deplatform a user off of SE using a small group of people, and if so how to prevent it [duplicate]
Backstory:
I'll start this off by saying my reputation is at 1 for a reason. Not disputing that.
My main concern is the manner in which this happened. It's readily apparent that at least two users ...
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How and when is voting fraud investigated? [duplicate]
As you all know, Up and Down voting questions on all Stack Exchange sites is a crucial part of network’s functionality, because it not only decides how correct or relevant questions and answers are, ...
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Unjustified downvotes [duplicate]
I wish to communicate with a moderator concerning 4 injustified downvotes that was made on 2 of my questions and 2 of my answers.
These downvotes were done in a lapse of time of 1 minute and 12 ...
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Someone upvoting all of my answers [duplicate]
Today, I just received an upvote on 9 of my answers at about the same time. I've read a little on here and saw that "serial" upvoting causes you to lose the rep after. My question is, I also got a ...
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Should I be afraid of getting too many up votes? [duplicate]
I have had a question in mind for a long time:
Imagine that I posted a good answer to a question. Is it okay for the OP to up-vote all of my posts (answers and questions) without my knowledge? I ...
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User mass(-ish)-downvoting... I think [duplicate]
Due to previous issues with a specific user, I believe he has now taken to downvoting:
Most tag-specific questions I'm involved in, and
Most tag-specific Q&A that he didn't answer, or got ...
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Make Vote after 30 Seconds [duplicate]
Yesterday, I saw serial upvotes to my Questions and Answers.
Today all those upvotes were reversed, as per the rules.
But, today I see that I am being serial-downvoted.
Now, I don't know if these ...
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Victim of Serial Downvoting [duplicate]
I got a series of down votes some-days (16 Aug 2013) before (Serial down-voting). I downvoted an answer and added a comment why I down-voted. After that I got too many down-votes for my different ...
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Revenge: what can we do? [duplicate]
20 minutes ago, in a matter of minutes I got downvotes on 6 of my past answers. My guess is that it comes from somebody seeking revenge because I downvoted one of his/her answers.
I don't know if I ...
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Is there a way to prevent spamming votes? [duplicate]
While I was working on an app, I was reading on question on SO. After a while (half an hour) i returned to the same question.I refreshed the page, and saw that the questioner had a considerable ...
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Bug in the Downvote Reversal? [duplicate]
Yesterday I was serial downvoted on SO - top four marked answers. So, lost 8 rep and was sitting at #,#22.
Looks like the script caught it, because there's no downvotes for yesterday when I check ...
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Continuously voting down [duplicate]
Some one is showing his conservative and little thinking by voting down all of my questions & answers on Stack Overflow. Here is the snap shot of my reputation changes:
You can also visit my ...
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