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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Can a single downvote cause a question to contribute towards a Q-ban?
A question ban is much worse than a temporary ban. One question per six months forever, versus just waiting a fixed time and coming back like nothing ever happened.
Only moderators can dish out ...
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"Voting corrected" number seems to be incorrect at first
A few days ago I got hit by a serial voting reversal. When I first visited by reputation tab, it said -230:
However, when I now visit my reputation tab, it shows -120:
The correct number is -120. So,...
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Is the act of downvoting all answers for a question ascribed to serial voting? [duplicate]
I've noticed that all answers here have 1 single downvote. I don't remember if they all appeared together, but it just made me think one single user might have stumbled on this question and downvoted ...
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Informing users who have committed serial voting
Could users who commit serial voting (probably without awareness that this is prohibited) be informed after they make that mistake?
Many years ago when I was new to mathoverflow, and saw a great ...
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"Serial voting reversed" on my profile - upvote removed [duplicate]
[Note: I'm not concerned with actual reputation loss but rather intrigued by this use case]
Got the above. I believe it means that someone was on a upvoting spree, that was detected and reversed.
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Alleged serial voting reversed but no suspiciousness of such activity taking place in the past 7 days
I noticed a huge -200 drop on my reputation on https://blender.stackexchange.com/ and I've read it has something to do about someone serial voting on my posts and needed to be reversed but I did not ...
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Can I upvote multiple posts from the same person if they are helpful?
I posted a few questions on Stack Overflow. After getting answers, I felt like they were all right as they solved my problems. So, I accepted all of them.
From then, whenever I visit the website, I ...
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Please add some basic guidance on voting to the tour
I just had to deal with an understandably irate user who had been participating on the site I moderate only in one specific tag, where only a very small group of people were active. It turned out that ...
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Informing new users that targeted voting is not allowed
The current help pages do not make it clear that targeted voting (either up or down) is not allowed.
The only mention of this is in Why do I have a reputation change on my reputation page that says &...
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"Serial voting was reversed" on a community where I have only 1 post [duplicate]
I got a "-10 Serial voting was reversed" on the Buddhism community - a community that the only post I made was a question in 2014. The last reputation I got from that question was in 2016.
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Why would I only lose 10 rep for reversal of serial voting? [duplicate]
Apparently I gained a fan. Flattering as it is I noticed this when on one site I lost 10 rep. I've checked other sites and can't find any other similar or matching adjustment.
I'm actually quite ...
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Is "Voting corrected" used for other purposes? [duplicate]
I just had 22 upvotes "corrected" by "the system" for which is linked help says (emphasis mine):
When a single user continually votes (up or down) on many of your posts within a ...
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The "learn more" explanation for Voting Correction does not cover all scenarios
The wording of the learn more for Voting corrected refers specifically and exclusively to multiple votes:
When a single user continually votes (up or down) on many of your posts within a short period ...
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Why did I get a serial voting reversal for a vote on a single post? [duplicate]
From the help center, "serial voting" means:
When a single user continually votes (up or down) on many of your posts within a short period of time, the system considers these votes
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Trying to understand a "-12 Serial voting was reversed" reputation entry
I understand what serial voting is in general, having read some of "What is serial voting...", but I woke up this morning to find the message -12 Serial voting was reversed in my 'reputation'...
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