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.

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
2 votes
1 answer
173 views

Targeted downvoting: information related to my profile

I would like to find out information about voting behaviour against me on this site (Main and/or Meta). Does such information exist? If so, where can I find it? For example these are related only on ...
Sebastiano's user avatar
  • 52.7k
14 votes
3 answers
402 views

How to deal with downvotes and revenge downvotes?

I had a very bad experience when downvoting an answer: I left in the comment the motivation of the downvote, and after that, the user clarified a little bit the answer I removed the downvote but the ...
G M's user avatar
  • 2,225
12 votes
0 answers
259 views

How can one politely ask unknown users to consider stopping serial votings?

For one week, every day I received a large amount of upvotes which have been identified as serial upvotes and thus undone. Of course, I do not know who casted the votes. Given the definition of "...
user avatar
18 votes
1 answer
523 views

source of chronic serial upvoting that affects (afflicts!?) some highly-rated contributors

There are some distinguished answer contributors to this site who used to write lots of excellent answers (for which they deservedly got many upvotes and accepts) but who are no longer as active as ...
Mico's user avatar
  • 495k
123 votes
7 answers
2k views

I am a serial upvoter

I am Paulo. I am the top voter of the entire StackExchange universe. And I believe I fit the description of being a serial upvoter. It is my OCD. I like to upvote, it is one of my favourite hobbies ...
Paulo Cereda's user avatar
  • 44.1k
13 votes
0 answers
257 views

Too many “Voting corrected” events

I think the serial voting check algorithm is harassing me: I got six “Voting corrected” messages in my reputation tab in the last seven days. This had no apparent effect on my overall rep, but it's ...
egreg's user avatar
  • 1.1m
8 votes
1 answer
90 views

Serial upvoting reversed shows incorrect day reputation

I read on the help page Should I be concerned about reversal statements on my profile? No, not at all. It's only an indication of reputation change. After all, we can't control the actions of ...
egreg's user avatar
  • 1.1m
22 votes
1 answer
775 views

Why didn't this obvious voting fraud get reversed?

This help page on Serial voting reversed states: When a single user continually votes (up or down) on many of your posts within a short period of time, this is referred to as voting fraud. This ...
jub0bs's user avatar
  • 58.5k