I recently flagged an answer because I thought that something strange was going on with the votes on the answer. The flag was declined because "flags should only be used to make moderators aware of content that requires their intervention".
My question is: what I should do if I see some behavior that looks suspicious and I would like a moderator to look at it without necessarily expecting an intervention?
Moderators cannot see who casts a vote and there is nothing we can do about the way people vote. There is a script that automatically finds and removes what appear to be irregular votes (e.g. serial downvoting/upvoting).
I see that after that answer was posted, there was a downvote, an upvote, and a comment all within 44 seconds. Perhaps some people didn't read the entire answer before voting, but that does not seem irregular; and even if it were, we don't know who was voting irregularly.
As to what you should do about suspicious behavior, flag it, but note that there are few things that moderators can do about voting irregularity.
