Sudden changes in reputation
Today I noticed that my reputation suddenly went up 110 points.
In the other website, my understanding is that fast changes in reputation associated with someone upvoting a large number of posts are automatically flagged as suspicious. Is this also true for this website? And if not, what happens when such mass-upvotes or mass-downvotes are detected? (I'd assume mass-downvotes at least would be reversed…)
Also, have only I been affected, or has someone decided to perform the "community service" of looking through everyone's answers and upvoting or downvoting them depending on quality?
(Please feel free to write me if it's against policy to give information about voting patterns publicly.)
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| User | Comment | Date |
|---|---|---|
| clemens | (no comment) | Mar 15, 2026 at 18:09 |
Unfair voting is not permitted anywhere on the network. By "unfair voting", we mean anything other than voting on content for its merits. That would include serial up- or downvoting, as you're talking about here. When we see evidence of patterns like this, we'll reverse the votes and reset any associated impacts such as reputation.
That said, because abilities here are not tied to reputation, we've had very few problems with serial voting, because there's very little benefit to it.
In this case, our automated systems haven't identified any concerning patterns, and I've just manually reviewed the voting data and I don't see anything concerning either. Enjoy your extra rep!
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