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José Figueroa comments on "Rep recount for Jose" (6404)

José Figueroa — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:39:26 -0700

Thanks for the explanation. Needless to say, I am not involved in this abuse, except circumstantially!

Anton Geraschenko comments on "Rep recount for Jose" (6403)

Anton Geraschenko — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:26:27 -0700

how can you see whether it is the same person voting up the posts?

You can't, but if you see that a bunch of your post were each voted on once in a short period of time, that's a strong hint that a single person is going through your profile voting on all your old posts. There's nothing wrong with that, but if (for example) the votes are in very quick succession (indicating that the person isn't reading the posts) and if the user votes only on your posts and not anybody else's, then the software may decide that some kind of sock-puppetry or other abuse of the voting system is going on.

José Figueroa comments on "Rep recount for Jose" (6401)

José Figueroa — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:57:02 -0700

Heh, I didn't realise I had a fan :)

By the way, how can you see whether it is the same person voting up the posts?

I'm not too bothered, though -- just a little mystified. Don't recalculate on my account.

Anton Geraschenko comments on "Rep recount for Jose" (6374)

Anton Geraschenko — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:46:44 -0700

That's pretty weird. I guess it's possible that a batch of suspicious-looking votes was thrown out, but you would probably have noticed a single person voting up each of your old posts in quick succession. Somebody reported a similar problem on meta.SO: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/37109/reputation-graph-level-is-lower-than-actual. Do you want me to try triggering a rep recalc? I don't know if it will help.

José Figueroa comments on "Rep recount for Jose" (6372)

José Figueroa — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:22:03 -0700

Yes, I noticed this too. Last night I had 8500+ points and this morning I had <8000. As surprising as this was, it was perhaps equally surprising to some of the reputation points I gathered in the last few days: some of them on old answers/questions which I thought were not particularly stellar.

I guess that MO giveth and MO taketh away :)

Andrew Stacey comments on "Rep recount for Jose" (6360)

Andrew Stacey — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:45:26 -0700

Pleased as I am to get back onto the second column of the rep count, there's a mismatch between José Figueroa-O'Farrill's reported rep (7992) and the reputation on his reputation graph (over 8000).