Questions tagged [voting-fraud]
Use this tag for questions about (suspected) voting anomalies, like serial voting, pile-on voting, voting-rings and/or cross-voting.
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Reputation fraud through multiple edits
Check out this "answer": https://stackoverflow.com/a/79477767
User A provided a low-quality/NAA "answer". User B suggested multiple non-sense edits, which were still approved. User ...
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How to report voting rings? [duplicate]
I’m trying to report what I suspect to be a voting ring with AI-generated questions and answers, but my report doesn’t fit the limit of a flag text.
All of these are vague questions (sometimes closed ...
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Who is upvoting spam in discussions (and can they please stop)?
In the past few days, I've noticed that just about all spam posts in Discussions have an upvote, some multiple (I guess I could link to a specific one but it will very quickly be deleted and then you ...
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What is the distribution of voting fraud over user rep and account age?
Since voting fraud is a big focus of the discussion of the 1-rep voting experiment, I'm curious to get some more informed estimates of how much more voting fraud would occur if users could vote at 1-...
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Voting reversal for smaller tags with few answerers
Today I received a Voting reversal and after investigating using the reputation-history API, I found that almost all of the votes were for the algolia tag, which only had a couple of active answerers, ...
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Is someone offering to pay for rep-farming on an assigned account allowed?
I'm aware of this probably similar question, but I think this has a different flavour.
I came across this "freelance job" posted on Upwork (emphasis mine):
Answer several questions on Stack ...
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What's wrong with my answer?
I recently answered an interesting question and thought it was a good answer. Everybody was happy (the question was upvoted two times). Almost a day later I got three downvotes without any comments ...
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A plea against regex dogmatism
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This is about a perceived pattern of down-votes.
If no such pattern actually exists, this post is moot; if there is such a pattern, I hope the users who contribute to it either reconsider their ...
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Don't be that account: buying and selling reputation and bounties
In recent months we have found several accounts that offered bounties and / or upvotes for hire. You pay them some money, they promise to upvote your content or apply bounties to your questions or for ...
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Is it unethical to offer vote trades? [duplicate]
Recently, I provided a helpful comment on an answer. After adding its information to their answer, the author replied with a comment asking if I'd mind upvoting the answer (which I'd already done) and ...
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What should we do when encountering suspicious rep changes? [duplicate]
I stumbled upon this user who mysteriously got all their questions and answers upvoted in a single day:
What, if anything, should be done about that?
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I've noticed strange votes for a specific user posts [duplicate]
I've noticed some very strange upvotes for a specific user. One or more users are upvoting this user's answers.
I know that maybe this is a coincidence, but there is a huge chance that this person is ...
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Accuracy of "Voting Fraud" detection
I recently flagged a suspicious voting pattern and I was right since my flag was helpful and the user got deleted. I have also noticed a bunch of "User Removed" on my profile (7 to be precise) and I ...
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Does Stack Overflow prevent cartels? [duplicate]
Let's say I organize a group of users (or fake users/bots) with malicious intent to inflate reputation. They will ask questions and upvote each others' answers. To keep things safe, questions will ...
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What should I do when I get serial up voting? [duplicate]
Overnight I have found that I've got +125 by someone upvoting almost all the questions I have posted. What should I do now to get SO not to take me to task for vote fraud?
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