Timeline for How many upvotes are too many?
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| Sep 28, 2017 at 10:40 | comment | added | Jyrki Lahtonen Mod | Quite. About the vote invalidation script. I have discussed it with the SE staff. They acknowledged some problems, but they also explained that tinkering with the current parameters would have unfavorable consequences elsewhere in the network. | |
| Sep 27, 2017 at 15:50 | comment | added | Simply Beautiful Art | I suppose that if one approaches the scenario outlined by @MarkMcClure , it would be best to vote moderately. :-) | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 12:04 | history | edited | Jyrki LahtonenMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 26, 2017 at 12:00 | comment | added | Jyrki Lahtonen Mod | Ok, sounds like I phrased it too sweepingly. Sorry about that. Thinking... There have been severe abuses in the past, so I'm very reluctant to write anything that could be read as a license to upvote a single users posts en masse. The problem is... statistical. And the script does not work ideally. It may be yet another case of "we know it (=targeted voting) when we see it" | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 11:52 | comment | added | Mark McClure | I also don't see anything to support your view in the help center. On the contrary, on the Vote Up page I see "Whenever you encounter a question, answer or comment that you feel is especially useful, vote it up!" with a similar suggestion on the Vote Down page. There's another page on Why is voting important with no suggestion that searching is in anyway unnatural browsing of the site. | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 11:52 | comment | added | Mark McClure | I very much appreciate the work you do as a moderator and I recognize the need to discourage abuse, but ... I must strongly disagree with your admonition against searching the posts of specific users - why else is the feature there in the first place? It's like recommending that you not peruse the books of your favorite authors. And the reality is that some users consistently post high quality posts and that some consistently post low quality posts. I see no problem at all with acting on those posts appropriately, based on the content of the post. | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 11:42 | comment | added | quid | @Asaf if you do it once, I think there will be no problem. If you do it all the time for the same user it starts to be a problem. It is not only that it is suspicious, in a way one can consider it as unfair. | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 10:26 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | I find that "perusing a profile" is a good way to get acquainted with someone's body of work. I will see their answer that I like, I will go and read other things that user had written, to see what sort of general impression I make of them. If I read 10 answers, and I liked them, I don't see why I can't vote these 10 answers without it being "suspicious". | |
| Sep 26, 2017 at 9:11 | history | edited | Jyrki LahtonenMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 26, 2017 at 5:18 | history | edited | Jyrki LahtonenMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 26, 2017 at 4:34 | history | answered | Jyrki LahtonenMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |