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Comments on Serial Downvoting: Is a user allowed to downvote all your posts, if they are deemed low quality?

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Serial Downvoting: Is a user allowed to downvote all your posts, if they are deemed low quality?

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I had an argument with this user. Now, when I post, someone is downvoting this post and older posts.

Question: Is a user allowed to downvote most of my posts, if they deem it low quality? (In stack exchange, the former is called "serial downvoting".)

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A response from clemens (3 comments)
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To answer your question directly: no, serial or targeted voting is not permitted.

However, on a quick investigation, you've received downvotes from a variety of different users, not just one particular individual. From a quick read of your posting history, it seems that you've posted a large number of fairly long, complex questions. I'm not a mathematician, so I can't comment on whether your posts are topical or make sense to mathematicians, but it certainly seems from the comments on several of your posts that others are struggling to understand them.

May I suggest that slowing down, taking more time over each post to ensure it's succinct and clearly stated would be helpful?

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Hello! I became a target of serial downvoting today, going from +40 to -2 reputation, receiving about... (2 comments)
Why the sudden downvotes? (Could anything be done?) (2 comments)
Thanks for your good intentions but I fear advising bharathk98 to clarify his content has been counte... (4 comments)
Thanks for your good intentions but I fear advising bharathk98 to clarify his content has been counte...
clemens‭ wrote 5 months ago

Thanks for your good intentions but I fear advising bharathk98 to clarify his content has been counterproductive in the past; see e.g. here and here. In a nutshell, bharathk98 does not usually clarify anything non-negligible but will simply ask a new question. All his questions except maybe one or two are "clones" of a single question, made by roughly this process.

bharathk98‭ wrote 5 months ago

clemens‭ I will try to stop asking clone questions. It's been weeks, maybe 1-2 months since I asked what you consider a clone question.

I'm slowly improving.

clemens‭ wrote 5 months ago · edited 5 months ago

bharathk98‭ Unfortunately the last question is for practical purposes a clone of the previous questions. Why? Because to understand the question in practice, a user will have to understand what your research paper is trying to do—and also understand a lot of other context, including the "modeling question" in p. 13 (!) of your paper.

There are places where you can get your research papers corrected and completed. Codidact is, to put it candidly, not such a place.

bharathk98‭ wrote 5 months ago

clemens‭ I understand. If I continue posting similar questions, you can close them.