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I have had the honour to be awarded three(!) Enlightened badges within a single(!) minute today. Not that I want to complain, but since the three questions were from different askers and of different age, I am somewhat curious if this happened by pure chance ... ? Maybe even a bug?

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    $\begingroup$ This sounds as if someone just went through some random sampling of your 9-vote answers and upvoted them... You may want to wait 24 hours and see if the voting is undone by the "serial upvoting" script. $\endgroup$
    – apnorton
    Jul 11, 2013 at 20:41
  • $\begingroup$ But they say enlightning never strikes twice.... $\endgroup$
    – Gerry Myerson
    Jul 12, 2013 at 10:33
  • $\begingroup$ @GerryMyerson Thrice ain't twice ... $\endgroup$
    – Hagen von Eitzen
    Jul 12, 2013 at 12:47

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Congratulations. You've been a "victim" of a serial upvoter.

Sometimes people target "near-badge" posts, and sometimes they just go through everything and upvote.

In a few hours (about five, which is 2:00 UTC) the script which detects these sort of things should reverse these votes. But the badges will stay.

(As change would have it, I had both these kind of serial upvotes happening to me today.)

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    $\begingroup$ I guess someone wanted to push you over 100K... maybe had a congratulatory meta post prepared, and just could not wait... (If so, you could become the only user to reach 100K twice). $\endgroup$
    – 40 votes
    Jul 11, 2013 at 21:06
  • $\begingroup$ @40votes: I guess so. $\endgroup$
    – Asaf Karagila Mod
    Jul 11, 2013 at 21:07
  • $\begingroup$ Well, at least in the case of upvoting me, 100k can hardly have been the objective :) $\endgroup$
    – Hagen von Eitzen
    Jul 11, 2013 at 21:47
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    $\begingroup$ @Hagen: Maybe it's someone with a very long term goal! ;-) $\endgroup$
    – Asaf Karagila Mod
    Jul 11, 2013 at 23:12
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    $\begingroup$ I consider this case closed - though even at this moment (more than 24 hours later) the same three answers still have their 10 upvotes. Ah, and I missed your 100K traversal - congrats. You could still repeat the experience by setting a bounty ;) $\endgroup$
    – Hagen von Eitzen
    Jul 13, 2013 at 8:06

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