I recently seen a message called serial voting reversed.    In my "reputation" in my user profile on Mi Yodeia,  there was 62 downvotes canceled and 5 of my downvote canceled. There was also 8 upvotes on answer reversed and one upvote on question.   My question is if there is someone who likes downvoting my answers in a serial way, the statistical correction of stack exchange is retroactive only or is there a preventive measure against recidivism.   I searched and did not find an answer. Please help me to know.  I have a high presumption, based on the fact that the last downvote was on an answer in which the same user wrote a comment on an other answer to the same question at the same time. An additional reason is that the difficulty to lose a compulsory activity is great.  In the past it was very hard for me to be taken seriously by moderators. I feel that somewhat is not clear for me how can I require to get advocacy. I feel that for a lengt time  moderators refuted to help me. Is there something non appropriate in the moderation system?
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I just noticed that I lost a bunch of points from my reputation score, and I used the "reputation" tab on my user profile page to try and track down the cause.  During my investigation, I noticed there was an unusual event of type "reversal". In the normal place of a question title, it says "voting corrected".     What does this mean, and what caused it?  Did I do something wrong? Why did I lose all of that reputation? Is the system punishing me for leaving too many good answers?  Is there any way to earn it back?
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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 downvote reversal". The downvotes and the bonus show up on different days. Since a whole day's quota worth of downvotes equates to quite a fraction of my daily rep cap, what happens in the following circumstances?   I get 200+ rep on a particular day, but I am serial downvoted (later reversed) back to under 200. Does this day count as reaching cap? I get 200+ rep the next day, and I am also credited back the rep. Is the rep bonus immune to the rep cap in the same way bounties are? On the day I get my rep bonus, it is enough to take me to 200 rep. Does this count as capping?
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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 instance:
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I recently downvoted an answer on SO because I believe it didn't actually answer the question, and before I could add a comment, the answer had been deleted. Two minutes later, I looked at the question again, and the same user had re-posted his answer, without the downvote.  I've seen this guy remove answers with negative feedback/downvotes in the past and repost them exactly as they were. My biggest concern is that by getting round the system this way will hide legitimate feedback that may be very relevant to whoever asked the original question.  I feel there's an argument for requiring a vote to close ANY answer or question with any kind of feedback. Personally, I've only ever deleted one question that had answers, because I realised there wasn't an easy way to explain what I was asking, and realised shortly after I posted it that it wasn't possible anyway.
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Why is there no possibility to make upvotes onymously? Seeing positive votes from credible other members would highly increase transparency and trust in answers.   Has anything like that been tried out so far?   What strong opinions are against such an option? Why not even make such behavior default?
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I am not a fraud, I have no acquaintances here whatsoever. I love reading questions and answers here and upvoting what I feel is cool. Sometimes I'm in awe of some answers and questions posted here. So I do see into users' profile and open their top questions and answers, and if I like them I upvote.   Number of votes:  Mostly up to 5 questions or answers (may be at best 10).   Mode:  When upvoting (or downvoting) in the opened links, I do not restrict my votes just to that user, but to all good answers and questions I find in that link. Also I do not open the profiles of someone I remember I had visited once.   Am I susceptible to be caught for serial voting? Is reputation gained from my votes deducted from his profile in this scenario? I just don't want my votes to be wasted, hence asking.. I went through  two  but hadn't got enough clarification.
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Today I voted up the wrong answer. I noticed that there's no way to undo your votes. When you have voted an answer you are forced to vote it, even if you don't want to. I immediately noticed the error and I could just change my vote to up or down, not delete my vote. It makes no sense at all, imho. Since you are able to change your vote within 5 minutes, you should also be able to remove your vote entirely. I can't believe no one noticed that before...
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I believe that showing the post score for nomination posts during primaries is a bad idea.  When I loaded the primaries page during the election, the first thing I saw was a post voted -1. This immediately colored my impression of the post. Reading his post didn't indeed make me wish he was a moderator, but at the same point I couldn't bring myself to click on the down arrow. He wasn't an awesome candidate, but he wasn't a -2 score candidate either. Actually, I kinda wanted to sympathy upvote instead.  I want to judge by myself whether a candidate is worth or not my +1. For some of those people I don't have an opinion already, and I want to form one on my own. I don't want game theory to kick in, I don't want to be tricked into sympathy upvotes.  Having those numbers in large print as the first thing I see about them honestly prevents me from doing so. I'd rather have their avatar there.     Some people on chat do not agree with me;  I imagine they'll post explaining why I want to be aware of their opinion while forming my own.      Regardless of the discussion here, if you do prefer to hide the scores as you vote, here's the jQuery oneliner that does just that:  $(".vote-count-post").hide()
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In Jeff's  he listed reasons for getting suspended:  No effort to learn and improve over time  This user does not put reasonable effort into the questions they ask of the community. There is little or no evidence of this user learning over time, either in the topic itself or in the community norms on the site. This user intentionally spams the site with the same question or very similar questions, over and over. The user never gives anything back to the community, but only takes.   What is the criteria for &quot;The user never gives anything back to the community, but only takes.&quot;? Does a user with 1785 questions and 7 answers(non of them have positive rating, and two negative) fit to that definition? I remember I saw a user with 0 answer being suspened, but does really answering one answer with negative rating save him?  I didn't linked to that user profile because it's not personally against him, but a hint: this is the user with the most questions in SO.
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I recently noticed (and ) a pattern of systematic downvoting by one user against all my questions and answers.  I have honestly no idea what the user's reasons or motivations are, since we have not interacted at all, barely even crossed path on the site (both answered the same question once), but he is clearly targeting me, not my content (which there is no physical way he could have read entirely during his downvoting sprees). He has not left a single comment on any post to justify his downvotes, nor has he replied to my polite requests to explain himself and/or stop this.  His first wave of downvotes was automatically reversed by the system yesterday, and I would have left it at that... But he has been at it again today, and just seems to have no other activity than downvoting my every contributions, which is getting a bit old, to be honest. This really isn't about the reputation points (which get returned each time by the system anyway), but I think a verbal notice enjoining him to play nicer with the community could go some way...  Because this particular form of abuse only has to do with votes, not post content, I don't think there is any way to flag him within the site (?). Also, because  is still pretty young, it appears we do not have any moderators yet (pro tempore or otherwise)... Would any meta-SO moderators mind taking a look at it?  Edit: somehow missed  when posting mine. Though I do not know what the policy for redundancy is, with support-requests... Please if necessary, feel free to close this question and I'll happily repost over there.
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I've downvoted several of the answers on these Meta discussions:       Both questions are typical self evaluations, Stack Exchange runs them on all young Beta sites and as you may have noticed they are essentially polls, a series of example questions from the site that we are supposed to vote on.  Today I noticed that almost all of my votes have disappeared on both evaluations, only an upvote remains in the later one. My votes triggered the serial voting script, something that :      Heh, it appears I just serially downvoted you (I downvoted a lot of the answers here), hopefully the script is smart enough to not reverse my votes. Will check back in 24h, and if it does, I'll rant about it on MSO ;)    My voting behaviour on both evaluations was very simple:   I had the evaluation open in the left monitor, Opened all the example questions in their own tab, in the right monitor, Scanned each question quickly, and voted on the Meta answer (most of my votes were downvotes), Repeat for the next one, and so on...   I didn't spend more than a few seconds on any question, as I'm fairly regular on the site and I've already read all of them while casually browsing the site. In fact, if my memory isn't failing me, I had voted (up/down) and/or commented, and/or voted to close on each of the 20 example questions. I might have spend a minute or two re-reading a couple, but I mostly scanned through them. In any case I think my voting pattern is quite normal, and the script should be somehow tweaked to take serial posts, posted by the same user in quick succession, into consideration, especially on Metas.   Since I had anticipated that the script would kick in, I could have tried to fool it by pausing a bit between votes or trying to look for other Meta posts to vote on, in between voting on the evaluation answers. However I'm a very active voter on Meta Workplace, there aren't many posts I haven't already voted on, and the few that I haven't is probably because I neither agree or disagree with (my opinion on them is simply "meh"). In any case I think my voting behaviour was natural, and although the serial voting script is awesome, this time it caught and reversed a perfectly legitimate behaviour.  Animuson, in , mentions that the script isn't really optimal on Area51 as well:      Yes, please implement this on Area 51 proposals too! Oftentimes a single user would suggest a plethora of "example" questions to their own proposal which are just terrible, yet all of everyone's votes get reversed and the question just sits there at 0. I've noticed several times that my votes have gotten reversed.    I haven't noticed it myself, but it certainly seems plausible, especially early in a proposal's life.  Mysticial found a related discussion, , but it's focused on voting patterns on main sites, where reputation is also a factor. I can understand jumping through hoops to satisfy the script on main sites where, unfortunately, there are a lot of people trying to get some cheap rep or "punish" others with their downvotes, but not on Metas, and especially not on these evaluation posts.   Voting fraud is a problem, and more often than not the script works wonderfully, but in my case it was extremely counterproductive. Critical evaluations are essential for a young Beta site, and their answers typically only get a handful of votes. I wonder how many of these votes have silently gone away...  Fix this please.
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I don't know if I'm being paranoid - but earlier I made a comment on a question that showed no research effort:  . I got a rather snarky reply, and a couple of minutes later I noticed that two of my top questions (which are otherwise on completely different topics) received downvotes within a minute of each other.        It is hard not to suspect a connection between these events, especially in light of the tone of follow-up comments made by the OP (who might not have noticed that I helped improve the answer that was ultimately accepted in the mean time).  Not sure if I am being over sensitive or paranoid; should I just move along? "Spiteful downvote" gets quite a few hits on this site, and maybe I am just too new to be immune to it.  My question(s): "Is there a process to reverse such behavior? Do the comments in the above question merit a flag? Should I shrug an move on?" Any words of advice or encouragement appreciated. Sorry if I sound whiny.  update - the question linked above has been removed "for reasons of moderation". Probably a good outcome. I appreciate all the helpful inputs this generated!  edit This is quite different than the question cited as the duplicate: in that one, a person lost reputation because a user was removed; in this case I suspect an individual user down voted two of my top questions in quick succession "out of spite". The message (shown above) in the rep dashboard was quite different... I request this question be re-opened.
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Update (March, 2012): This has been rolled out to all sites in the network.    Behind the scenes we've been hard at work making some changes to how we track reputation.  Here are some of the issues we're aiming to address with these changes:   Reputation Skew (your actual reputation doesn't match what's shown) Up/Down votes oddities (mostly with the daily rep cap, the magical +2) Historical Deletes (not impacting rep immediately, contributing to skew) Unaccepts (display issues in the profile) User Deletion (magically missing rep, another skew contributor)   To be clear: reputation values are not changing, every action in the system is still worth the same amount.   Here’s what will be different:   Your reputation will be correct at all times Deletions will have a much more immediate effect on reputation, not waiting on a recalc  (but reputation sync takes up to 5 minutes on a delete/undelete action; as to not block the user's response thread, it's offloaded to a background queue) Recalcs will no longer be necessary Up/Down vote reversals will restore the correct reputation amount Up/Down vote reversals will correctly adjust to the reputation cap The reputation history in your profile will be more detailed and accurate (e.g. when a post is deleted, you'll see that in the reputation tab of your profile)   This means your reputation will go up and down more than it has previously, but it will be in sync.  To think of it more easily: imagine that a recalc will be done after every action in the system.  Probably the biggest impact many will be concerned with is that you may see your reputation drop in cases where it didn't seem like it did before  This was effectively happening before, but the results of that change were not applied immediately, but on the next rep recalc.  Post deletion is the biggest factor here, previously it didn't (immediately) account for the reputation impact...that will no longer be the case.  Reputation changes from the deletion will now be applied within the hour, and most other changes will be instant.  Now the part that will make everyone throw vegetables our way:  this will require a global recalc to get everything in sync.  We'll be rolling it out first here on meta, then the rest of the network...the enabling of the detailed rep view and global recalc on each individual site will coincide.  During the rollout you will see empty reputation tabs on profiles as we transition to the new storage behind the scenes, they'll be restored as the recalc rolls though each user.  We’ll put up a blog post on  before the network-wide rollout.  If you have any questions about this change or details I may have left out, please do so in answers below so that we can clear up as much as possible before this rolls out.
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My question is similar to   I believe this would be useful in the scenario if I upvote a question or answer... and the OP changes it where you no longer think it deserves the up vote you have bestowed upon it.  For example, I upvoted an answer, because I thought it was a great answer... then the OP changes it to add a bunch of stuff that I no longer think makes it a great answer. How am I notified of this change?  I know you can rollback use roll back, but how do you know it was edited without getting a notification!?  I haven't seen any meta asking this question, but if one exists please link it and I will remove this question!    EDIT:   @JoshC brings up a valid point... where not everyone has time to go through all the notifications... but why can their be an option under account preferences to turn this feature on or off?
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I recently posted an answer that was a little controversial, I suppose.  While watching the page the answer was voted up and down a few times.  Is there a way to view the vote history?  Also, would there be any support for adding some sort of activity indicator?  My reasoning is this, you could potentially have a question or answer with "0 votes" that actually had numerous votes.  Visually seeing 0 votes indicates the question hasn't had any attention when exactly the opposite could be the case.  Thoughts?
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I just saw a post (deleted)  which was deleted by  but is shown as:   deleted by Charles, Gordon♦, Gordon♦ 1 min ago   How is it that one person (whether a mod or not) can vote twice on the same post?
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I have, in my view, strong, albeit circumstantial, evidence that a particular user is operating a sock puppet account. It appears not to have been detected by any automated mechanisms–both users are still here.  The individual in question is not interested in collecting lots of rep but rather uses the account to carry out prolonged vindictive down-voting attacks. The down-voting account loses rep over time (due to the down-votes) and when it gets close to falling below 125, it is topped up.  Do moderators want to hear more details (e.g. via a flag)? Or do we just accept that if the automated detection scripts don't pick it up, then there's nothing more to be done.