For the past 24 hours at least, someone has been upvoting questions without discretion on ServerFault. At first, I started to downvote the particularly heinous misappropriation. At this point, I'm less willing to take the reputation hit.

Is there a remedy to this activity or is it simply a side effect of the design?

It's difficult to illustrate the activity for the purpose of discussion. Nevertheless, I frequent the site and actively notice trends based on observation.

As of 5/23/2010 at 11:00AM EDT approximately over the past 24 hours:

• Nearly a full page of the newest questions

A bunch of current examples:

• http://serverfault.com/questions/144469/ubuntu-on-virtualbox-can-only-show-resolution-of-800-x-600-how-to-change-it
• http://serverfault.com/questions/144497/huawei-product-passwords
• http://serverfault.com/questions/144514/dd-wrt-and-squid-proxy
• http://serverfault.com/questions/144513/data-archiving-vs-not

It's ridiculous to continue listing.

For the past 24 hours at least, someone has been upvoting questions without discretion on ServerFault. At first, I started to downvote the particularly heinous misappropriation. At this point, I'm less willing to take the reputation hit.

Is there a remedy to this activity or is it simply a side effect of the design?

It's difficult to illustrate the activity for the purpose of discussion. Nevertheless, I frequent the site and actively notice trends based on observation.

As of 5/23/2010 at 11:00AM EDT approximately over the past 24 hours:

• Nearly a full page of the newest questions

A bunch of current examples:

• https://serverfault.com/questions/144469/ubuntu-on-virtualbox-can-only-show-resolution-of-800-x-600-how-to-change-it
• https://serverfault.com/questions/144497/huawei-product-passwords
• https://serverfault.com/questions/144514/dd-wrt-and-squid-proxy
• https://serverfault.com/questions/144513/data-archiving-vs-not

It's ridiculous to continue listing.