I seem to have picked up 30-40 karma I can’t account for over the past week. I wondered if it was some effort to undo the efforts of identified mass-downvoters.
I have also noticed a bit of a spike, but if it were a de-euginiering effort, the change would be 1000+ points for me, not 30-40. So probably something else is going on.
That doesn’t seem likely in my case, since the only non-meetup things I’ve posted before today have been about the MWI and Scott Aaronson’s take on integrated information theory.
See the last open thread—several people (including me) have been victims of a mysterious mass upvoter who has gone through everything we’ve posted in the last month or so adding +1s indiscriminately up to about +30 to +40.
Personally I suspect it is a psychological experiment, examining the difference in reaction between this mysterious mass upvoter and the recent mysterious mass downvoter. Or, yknow, a troll.
I was thinking more mod/admin efforts. I’ve never apparently been the victim of mass-downvotes, but if there was an intervention to remove all downvotes made by a troublesome user, the sudden removal of all their cumulative downvotes over time might look like an unexpected karma boost.
I seem to have picked up 30-40 karma I can’t account for over the past week. I wondered if it was some effort to undo the efforts of identified mass-downvoters.
I have also noticed a bit of a spike, but if it were a de-euginiering effort, the change would be 1000+ points for me, not 30-40. So probably something else is going on.
That’s probably not it, given that I was one of Eugine’s identified victims, and my karma has not changed in > 30 days.
Also, here is the discussion from the previous OT.
That doesn’t seem likely in my case, since the only non-meetup things I’ve posted before today have been about the MWI and Scott Aaronson’s take on integrated information theory.
I’ve had a similar thing. Prior to that I had a bunch of −1s that arrived all at once and which I considered unjustified.
So you’re saying there’s a mass up-voter lurking out there? :) (If so I may have been the object of their efforts too.)
See the last open thread—several people (including me) have been victims of a mysterious mass upvoter who has gone through everything we’ve posted in the last month or so adding +1s indiscriminately up to about +30 to +40.
Personally I suspect it is a psychological experiment, examining the difference in reaction between this mysterious mass upvoter and the recent mysterious mass downvoter. Or, yknow, a troll.
Or someone who read one of your comments, like it, and then read others and liked them as well.
I was thinking more mod/admin efforts. I’ve never apparently been the victim of mass-downvotes, but if there was an intervention to remove all downvotes made by a troublesome user, the sudden removal of all their cumulative downvotes over time might look like an unexpected karma boost.