Questions tagged [serial-voting]
Serial voting is the act of casting many upvotes or downvotes on the posts of a specific user without proper reason. Also known as voting fraud.
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Ignore votes on answers deleted by moderators when checking for serial down-voting
My understanding (inspired by this answer and conversations in The Workplace chat) is the serial-downvoting script currently does not include:
Overall +/- votes for an answer
Whether answer was ...
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I know somebody who is downvoting my posts across all Stack Exchange sites [duplicate]
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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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Getting a downvote everyday from the same user
I am aware of the rule that the same user can't downvote another user many times the same day, otherwise it's considered a "serial downvoter" and the negative votes get deleted.
Now I checked my ...
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Several issues with the "serial thing"
As you can see in the image, I was raged by someone yesterday
Then, I posted in Physics meta. I got several replies to the downvote. But, I can't understand the upvotes and today- the reversal. So, I ...
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User systematically downvoting my contributions [duplicate]
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What can I do if I’m the victim of serial downvoting?
Punish serial downvoting
The ability to downvote questions anonymously without even the briefest of comments to give a ...
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How to identify a downvoting stalker [duplicate]
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What is serial voting and how does it affect me?
Yeah I got a deranged stalker that keeps downvoting me.
Anyone know how going about identifying such individuals?
(I just ...
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What do I do when someone deliberately downvotes many of my answers? [duplicate]
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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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How does Stack Overflow control downvoter trolls?
We all have received a downvote on our questions, and for most of them we wondered why. Does Stack Overflow do anything to prevent downvotes made just for fun or wasting their time?
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Is a moderator considered as a normal user?
I'm asking because of this by reading Marc's answer:
the emphasis is on a post, not a user.
Does this automated process also apply to moderators, or are they protected from this?
I mean, what ...
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How might I avoid punishing users who I follow?
Often when I get a good answer where I see that the answerer went through a lot of effort and answer revisions to help me, like with this unix.so question, then I like to go through the answerer's old ...
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Suspicious / serial upvoting - flag it, or raise it on meta?
This user received an upvote on every one of their eleven questions (and two of their answers), during a four minute window on November 14th. Three of those questions are closed, two have a negative ...
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What are SO's measures against personal hate? [duplicate]
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What can I do if I’m the victim of serial downvoting?
What is serial voting and how does it affect me?
From my profile: https://stackoverflow.com/users/604511/aitchnyu?tab=...
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Provide explicit moderator tools to deal with sock puppets
Determining whether a specific user is a sock puppet is not an exact science. While many cases are clear-cut, the line can get a lot fuzzier when for example coworkers and friends are involved. So ...
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Downvoting repetitive questions by the same person
Suppose a person asks a question that is not valid, and repeats it many times with some changes. If I always downvote that question, is that serial downvoting or not? I think it should not be ...
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Downvoting without comment.Why it's allowed? [duplicate]
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Encouraging people to explain down-votes
Recently somebody downvotes few of my questions/answers in same time.
Without comment or reason.
Why is this allowed? Imagine this: ...
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Deleted post with downvoted and Serial downvote reversed
If I got downvote on my question and I delete my question? and if it was Serial downvote. will I get my downvote reputation back?
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Control friends voting each other
I realize that in Stack Overflow some people always vote, edit, give bounty and answer each other questions to get more points and to get badges. I think that it is not fair, because at first it is ...
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3 question downvotes at once [duplicate]
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What can I do if I’m the victim of serial downvoting?
Just got 3 downvotes at once for old, totally unrelated questions of mine:
Possible to scroll caret into view inside a ...
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What information systems could Stack Exchange display publicly to discourage reputation farming as it relates to mutual upvoting?
As the Stack Exchange websites grow and become more popular I see a few problems that are arising/could eventually arise. Reputation is a useful metric for me personally - it often determines which ...
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Consider "serial upvoting reversed" count as "removed posts" [duplicate]
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Please hide “serial upvoting reversed” entries in the public reputation history
I was a victim of anonymous serial upvoting long back. My answers got serially upvoted, ...
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Lot of downvotes in an instant [duplicate]
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What can I do if I’m the victim of serial downvoting?
I'm not sure if this is a good question, but I don't have other place to get a good answer. In the last few days, I ...
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The vote fraud script breaks legitimate polling questions - A serial downvoter's lament
I've downvoted several of the answers on these Meta discussions:
The Workplace self-evaluation: let's get critical!
The Workplace self-evaluation: let's get critical!
Both questions are typical self ...
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High-level user abuse with citation resulting in ban; ban lift requests? [closed]
Two questions:
I'm inferring that this is what has happened, but I'd prefer to believe I wasn't actually targeted; so if I'm being paranoid, please move on to 2.
I believe one of the high-level ...
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Can serial voting reversal please deduct the rep on the same day that the voting happened?
Yesterday, I got repcapped through a serial upvoter, and I fully expected the rep to be taken away again. What I dislike, however, is the fact that I got the rep deduction account for today, which ...
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Down voted multiple questions simultaneously even upvoted some? [duplicate]
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What can I do if I'm the victim of serial downvoting?
I'm very much disappointed by seeing around 7 questions been asked by me were down voted by somebody.
Some of them ...
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A better serial voting trap
Currently we capture fanatic, voting ring or rage-type activities, by measuring the number of up-votes or down-votes between the same two users in a certain (relatively short) time period. When this ...
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Policy on reputation abuse from vindictive redditor trolls?
https://stackoverflow.com/users/430062/theodore-r-smith?tab=reputation
I've angered one to two people on Reddit who have proceeded to downvote a great many of my posts in serial.
Is there anything ...
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Should I Be Suspicious? Sequential Downvotes [duplicate]
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I was just attacked by an onslaught of downvotes! What do I do?
What is serial voting and how does it affect me?
Today I woke up to this:
As you can see, someone downvoted ...
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Someone just upvoted a whole bunch of my answers (too many to be accidental) - Does this happen often?
I have answered a few questions tonight and I assume that someone who thought my answer was helpful seems to have upvoted a bunch of my answers. While it is of course pleasant to see rep ticking over, ...
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Is there any minimum votes needed to trigger the serial downvoting logic?
I become a victim of serial down-voting. But Stackoverflow's script didn't return it back. I lost 10 reputations. I had flagged twice and the moderator accept it as helpful, but no luck.
I know the ...
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Does reversal of serial voting on community wiki posts affect reputation?
Earlier yesterday, someone serially upvoted me on Ask Ubuntu. That doesn't bother me as much as I know the votes would be reversed in a matter of time.
But I noticed a possible bug in the serial ...
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Partial fix of serial downvotes
Two days ago I got some very obvious serial downvotes on SO. (Four downvotes on four old questions of mine, in a short space of time shortly after someone replied to a comment of mine on an an answer ...
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Does serial voting cause the voter a reputation change?
I have lost around 170 reputation points in serial up voting so far, which is more than what I had earned from up votes. If this is the case then what if any of the known persons do serial up voting ...
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Is there a more permanent solution for repeated serial voting by the same users?
On August 17 I got serially upvoted twice in a day:
I am assuming that except the blue colored upvote the rest of the votes are by the same two users. I reported the incident and my flag was deemed ...
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Report serial down-voting on my profile [duplicate]
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What can I do if I'm the victim of serial downvoting?
As you can clearly see here:
( Not allowed yet to post images, here's the link: downvotes )
in my Profile, all of ...
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Alerting abusive voters of their wrong doing
This is kind of a two part ordeal so bear with me here. First of all, is there any system in place to warn an abusive voter of what they're doing, a helpful orange box informing them that they are ...
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Give moderators a tool to invalidate votes between users
Vote fraud happens on Stack Exchange sites, it is a natural consequence of the reputation system and one of the duties of a moderator is to deal with cases of suspected vote fraud. There are various ...
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Feedback when flagging "revenge" down voters
There seems to be posts daily about "revenge down-voting" and I feel embarrassed to be adding another, but as with the other users it is something that I find frustrating.
I understand that the ...
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Who can undownvote besides me? [closed]
I downvoted a post yesterday and it got undownvoted today. Can the privileged users access my account and make these changes? Who else can make this change?
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My questions were serially downvoted, automatic reversal didn't kick in and flagging one of the questions did not help
A week ago, after downvoting the answer to the question Unable to get attributes back from GetCustomAttributes, four of my questions were downvoted and on the other day, another three met the same ...
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"Up-vote me and I'll up-vote you" sort of deals
Think of following pattern of events:
User A asks question.
User B answers this question, but don't upvote the question.
User A upvotes User's B answer.
User B checks whether his answer had been ...
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Is it possible to view who was responsible for serial voting? [duplicate]
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I was just attacked by an onslaught of downvotes! What do I do?
Is it possible to trace serial down-voting?
Is it possible to see who has serial up/down voted you or is ...
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Overzealous fan makes my rep explode then reversal ensues. Is the fan punished for such behavior?
I was surprised last morning to wake up to 666 rep, a 150 more than I had the night before. I looked at my rep ledger and saw that almost all of my answers were upvoted in a span of about 10 minutes. ...
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Is Stack Overflow's reputation system vulnerable to manipulation?
I'm concerned that some malicious users of the Stack Exchange network might get 20 (or 30, or 100) people to up-vote every question that they have ever posted on one of the Stack Exchange websites, ...
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Please hide "serial upvoting reversed" entries in the public reputation history
You can always get a handful of people on Stack Overflow that go round serial up-voting. It has happened to me before and I can only assume it was done by the same person as all votes occurred in the ...
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How to vote on friends / colleagues ' questions (or answers)
Almost every time a colleague of mine asks a question, we have discussed this problem beforehand. Also, we sometimes meta-discuss the question for stackoverflow (why did I get the "this might be ...
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Isn't this a serial voteup? [closed]
A profile I visited yesterday clearly had 14 serial votes ( 8 vote up on question and 6 vote up on answer ) in two minutes.
I have very good flag history of finding such false voting. However ...
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What effect does serial downvoting have on my rep cap?
So I was the victim of serial downvoting the other day, and just had it automagically reversed. Rather than simply removing the previous votes, I was given a bonus lump of rep with the reason "serial ...
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Serial Downvoting Reversed with +4 bonus point
I was looking at a user's reputation tab https://stackoverflow.com/users/1437962/elyusubov?tab=reputation
There is a serial downvoting happened on 20th June date( total 28 downvote at 02:48 hours ). ...
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How to protect posts from serial upvoting
What really drove me to asking this is the fact that when I logged into my SO account yesterday, I was dazed/amazed/confused to see that my reputation sky-rocketed by 200 points since the previous log ...
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