nonagon

userØØ7

May 25, 2013 16:05

I am astonished to see nonagon just got 200 rep, within 2 minutes......got upvotes on all his answers.....untill he hit the daily rep count ??

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Brandon Enright

@userØØ7 yeah looks like he must have created another account to cheat.

userØØ7

@BrandonEnright I never wanted to state this myself. But I too think the same

Brandon Enright

I've noticed that on a few other people's rep histories. Tomorrow all of that rep will be gone because the serial upvoting script will reverse all of it.

userØØ7

Yes, also he did that in a short span of time. That's gonna be reversed.

Brandon Enright

Take a look at the reputation graph for CrazyBuddy:

physics.stackexchange.com/users/11062/?tab=reputation

Monday December 24th there was a -195 rep correction due to serial upvoting.

userØØ7

May 25, 2013 16:09

Yes there is a long red bar :D

Brandon Enright

It's hard to know if the owner of the account benefiting from the serial upvoting is also the source of the voting (puppet account) but it most cases it seems likely.

userØØ7

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A: What is serial voting and how does it affect me?

What is voting fraud? Voting fraud is when a single user continually upvotes many of your posts within a short period of time. This is not considered normal behavior and the system will not allow it. If it continues to happen between two certain IP addresses (voting each other up) or from a sing...

Brandon Enright

It seems like once the mortarboard badge is awarded it isn't taken away. A few accounts have it but the one day they have over 200 rep was taken away the next day.

userØØ7

@BrandonEnright It does not matter who did it.

Brandon Enright

@userØØ7 yeah I know it doesn't matter.

userØØ7

May 25, 2013 16:12

@BrandonEnright Yes no batch is taken away .

Brandon Enright

So nonagon or crazybuddy or whomever has that sort of vote reversal in their history is not guaranteed to be guilty.

userØØ7

I recently got some serial downvotes . Which got reversed too :)

Brandon Enright

Fortunately I haven't had to deal with anything of the sort yet. It's a bummer that people want to either show favoritism or be vindictive to other users.

userØØ7

@BrandonEnright I'd help you to get through all this..... If you want ;)

Brandon Enright

I find it somewhat amusing that people suggest Newton was wrong with regard to orbital motion forgetting that Newton helped invent calculus and calculus resolves the issue.

Ϛѓăʑɏ βµԂԃϔ

May 25, 2013 16:19

@BrandonEnright Hey... Power shutdowns aren't that much :P

Only 2-3 hrs. per day ;-)

@userØØ7 Of course, I got that once... Manish too I think so ;-)

Brandon Enright

@ϚѓăʑɏβµԂԃϔ huh okay. In the states when power is out it's usually because something very bad happened. Then it can be out for days.

Ϛѓăʑɏ βµԂԃϔ

@BrandonEnright Not like that... In India (I don't know about other states - probably Tamil Nadu), it's usual like brushing everyday :P

userØØ7

@BrandonEnright These regular power cuts are common in India :). Even in punjab.Especially in summer afternoons :(

Ϛѓăʑɏ βµԂԃϔ

@userØØ7: BTW, I didn't get that love from a single user very early..!

I got it this year start or so (can't remember)...

Of course, there's a way to find who voted that..! (which is privacy)

@BrandonEnright: BTW, you can google for power shutdowns tamil nadu or India if you want..! ;-)

Brandon Enright

@ϚѓăʑɏβµԂԃϔ I tried looking at the top voters in the last week for users that have about 19 or 20 votes. Is there a better way to find serial up voters? Obviously finding them doesn't really help me but it's more of a curiosity thing.

Ϛѓăʑɏ βµԂԃϔ

May 25, 2013 16:25

@BrandonEnright I'm not a mod. But, mods can see it for sure... ;-)

Brandon Enright

Ah dmckee said the same thing that I did about Newton and calculus

Ϛѓăʑɏ βµԂԃϔ

hah... I'm good ;-)

userØØ7

The greatest reversal:

-900. :)

Brandon Enright

That must have involved multiple users colluding. Nobody can place 90 votes in a day.

Ϛѓăʑɏ βµԂԃϔ

Am I blind..? I haven't seen reversals more than 200 :P

Brandon Enright

May 25, 2013 16:28

Perhaps it was a huge bounty that somebody unaccepted or unawarded?

Ϛѓăʑɏ βµԂԃϔ

@BrandonEnright Nah.. bounty is once and can't be retaken..!

@userØØ7 Any clues or links Mr. Surprise :D

userØØ7

@ϚѓăʑɏβµԂԃϔ No. not gone through details. But found this in comments of this question

Brandon Enright

I wonder if you can sap reputation from a user by giving them much more than 200 rep in a day, and then the next day all of that being subtracted? Perhaps the rep cap is resolved after those corrections so that it's not possible to steal rep?

Ϛѓăʑɏ βµԂԃϔ

@userØØ7 Oh my... I'm blind that I didn't see that comment ;-)

@BrandonEnright Hey... in fact, we can find serial upvoters from their profile (there's the record for their votes)

userØØ7

It's worth noting that while the user doesn't have 2k rep now, and as such requires their edits to be reviewed, he did at the time of that edit until he lost over 1000 rep due to serial voting reversals. That leads me to believe he may have done other malicious activities around that time; probably worth a mod looking into it. — Servy 20 hours ago

Ϛѓăʑɏ βµԂԃϔ

May 25, 2013 16:34

@userØØ7 Hey.. Now, I'm alive (I saw that) :P

Today morning, I didn't notice it at all..!

@BrandonEnright: The record shows their all, week (and of course) day votes --> hmm... caught the guy :D

userØØ7

Found the user too . stackoverflow.com/users/239879/… . See for May7.

Ϛѓăʑɏ βµԂԃϔ

@userØØ7 So, you've been searching the whole time - that's what I call an enthusiast :P

userØØ7

He is a user with consistent -ve rep for the day.

Ϛѓăʑɏ βµԂԃϔ

Still, I can't totally digest the -1049..! :/

Such a large value that the graph shows everything more or less near :P

I mean, -50 & -1049 has the same height :D

userØØ7

Yeah.Also he got no +ve rep that day. :D

Ϛѓăʑɏ βµԂԃϔ

May 25, 2013 16:41

I think those clockworks should be explained by Manish..! Oops... He's busy now :P

userØØ7

@ϚѓăʑɏβµԂԃϔ A few days ago(7May), I cound not even have thought of -1049 with my account. It would have gone in -ve rep. :)

Brandon Enright

I don't think we need to do anything. The script will take care of it soon enough.

Ϛѓăʑɏ βµԂԃϔ

And, My sleep is gone..! "How could that large number be..?"

Is that some sorta punishment..? :D

(for showing his rage - he has widely unaccepted everything..!)

soon..? the script..? OMG..!
It has left for days :D

userØØ7

@ϚѓăʑɏβµԂԃϔ He was talking about nonagon. You see his progress for the day........He'll get Motarboard for it.

Brandon Enright

@userØØ7 looks like he already has the Mortarboard badge. It seems like the Mortarboard badge stays even in the case of vote fraud.

userØØ7

May 25, 2013 16:53

@ϚѓăʑɏβµԂԃϔ Do you know making @name comments for you is now impossible. We don't have that font in our keys..

Well do you know why mathoverflow.net is rainbow colored?

Brandon Enright

@userØØ7 just copy the Ϛ char and tab-complete the name

userØØ7

@BrandonEnright He should have let the 'C' as it was.....

Rest comes on it's own.

Brandon Enright

Rest is the absence of activity.

userØØ7

@BrandonEnright nonagon is clever. just offered a bounty for +200 before reversal.

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Will the bounty be gone now

Brandon Enright

@userØØ7 yeah I wonder what will happen. I don't mind too much though since if he keeps blatantly abusing he'll get banned.

userØØ7

May 25, 2013 16:59

hmm...

Brandon Enright

Entertaining juxtaposition of the day:
http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/9477251#9477251
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/65887/newtons-law-paradox

Nonagon deletes a lot of comments. He'll post a comment long enough for somebody to read it and then delete it.

userØØ7

@BrandonEnright I think Mod's should have taken chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/9477267#9477267 seriously.

Ϛѓăʑɏ βµԂԃϔ

May 25, 2013 17:17

@userØØ7 I know that...

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