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    Looking at the answer. I see that the first revision owner loses the rep? What happens if a bunch of people vote spam on an edit? If it's one or two votes, the OP or editor can rollback and remove the flag, but if it's 6, the original revision owner (the OP) loses rep? What if the Spam is a malicious edit. Shouldn't the flagged revision owner lose rep instead?
    – Lee Louviere
    Commented Aug 23, 2012 at 21:45
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    I meant to focus that comment more on malicious editors could cause misdirected rep damage since the first revision owner gets the damage.
    – Lee Louviere
    Commented Aug 23, 2012 at 21:59
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    @Xaade: The scenario that you are describing is exceptionally rare, and if it does happen, moderators can reverse it.
    – user102937
    Commented Aug 24, 2012 at 15:07
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    @RobertHarvey Ok, but for reference I posted an answer with my findings. Hopefully if anyone else has the question in their head, it'll clear it up. It's basically the consensus from other questions.
    – Lee Louviere
    Commented Aug 24, 2012 at 15:21
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    I couldn't see the flag - at bottom of post - for marking an answer as (real) spam. I realised I needed to be logged-in to the site (i.e. in this case refresh my browser).
    – PeterX
    Commented Apr 1, 2015 at 2:03