moderators anyone? @YannisRizos @maple_shaft - could you please help me figure about this question? programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/150442/…

as far as I can tell, it has been posted from suspended account

like if there was a duplicate account merge

I also see in user reputation undownvote for this question, shown at the time (3:00) when serial reversal script kicks in

I wonder if the reverted downvote has been cast before or after account merge (if there was a merge)

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some time ago I asked at MSO if this can happen or not meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/132589/… - there were no clarifications so far

thanks

@gnat Question posted with a clone account, which was merged into the main suspended account. I think that brings us to 5 or 6 clones after the suspension, all of which were automatically question banned because the questions were heavily downvoted / closed / deleted. That's a good thing, people are downvoting his crap questions without knowing its him...

As for the reversal script, my guess is that it's just dumb, and after the merge counts your votes (up/down) as casted against the same account, which probably means that they get over the threshold and are reversed. But that's only a guess, I've dropped your MSO question into TL to get some more visibility to it...

You have x Goma downvotes invalidated. Nothing to worry about, everyone knows what a problem Goma is, and I have 2x-1 votes invalidated, if someone is getting in trouble that's me... ;P

thanks @YannisRizos - actually, if script reversed a vote cast after clone merge, I My wouldn't worry much. That's probably slightly unfair, but to me it's reasonable "price" to pay for script simplicity. Now, if reverted DV was before merge, that probably would bee too much of... simplicity

as for my DVs these seem to be going through fine, I keep checking and re-checking these :)

@gnat Well in general the script works just fine, but Goma is a weird edge case, can't blame the developers for not factoring in for such a stubborn & persistent douche...

agree