Timeline for Systematic downvoting?
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| Jan 11, 2011 at 6:53 | comment | added | Rob Moir | @John yes it would - IIRC that it would... But there was an article on how to 'karma whore' on SO that suggested it, perhaps the ability to sort like that was added to counteract this technique? I don't know if that was a feature from day one of SO or something that was added. | |
| Jan 11, 2011 at 0:46 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | @Robert, that "tactical downvoting" would be pretty pointless for those who display the answers sorted by most recent. :) | |
| Jan 10, 2011 at 22:23 | comment | added | Rob Moir | I think someone on SO talked about "tactical downvoting" to keep your answer at the top of a list quite some time ago. Not saying that's what happened here, but I think it could happen. Of course downvoting a bunch of answers because they're all dreadful is perfectly valid - I have seen questions before where the answers were total trainwrecks. | |
| Jan 10, 2011 at 21:24 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | @jscott, I did notice that but not until after I'd posted that comment. I guess in this instance my suspicion is most likely incorrect but it is a pretty reasonable conclusion to jump to. | |
| Jan 10, 2011 at 21:07 | comment | added | jscott | @John I don't know, I think that's a big jump. The poster in question has only 5 down votes of 110 total... So the four -1s on that question would be nearly all his down votes, ever, over 20+ months. Seems like a strange thing to do, on just one question. | |
| Jan 10, 2011 at 20:25 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | Thanks. I agree that suspicion must point to the poster of that one answer that wasn't downvoted. Imagine having to work alongside a person like that. | |
| Jan 10, 2011 at 6:42 | history | answered | Zoredache | CC BY-SA 2.5 |