That usually indicates that someone’s targeting the user for systematic downvoting, although this is the first time I’ve heard of it driving someone’s score into the negatives. The last (and, to my knowledge, only) user that was proven to engage in that sort of voting behavior got banned for it, but it’s next to impossible to get someone to stay gone if they don’t want to with the administrative tools we have available.
Alternately, we have a fundie floating around who’s upset with MugaSofer’s portrayal of their sect, although our demographics are such that that’s probably not the most likely option.
A quick scan of the last couple of pages of MugaSofer’s comments seems to indicate that the last handful of comments have not received negative votes, and a long sequence of comments before that have consistently received a single negative vote each, which looks like systematic downvoting to me (by someone who hasn’t yet caught up) but of course is not remotely definitive.
That said, the net balance of them is generally positive, which means the negative balance isn’t accounted for either way.
I can give you a little more data—this has happened before, which is why I’m in the negatives. Which I guess makes it more likely to happen again, if I’m that annoying :/
It turned out to be a different person to the famous case, they were reasonable and explained their (accurate) complaint via PM. Probably not the same person this time, but if it happened once …
That usually indicates that someone’s targeting the user for systematic downvoting, although this is the first time I’ve heard of it driving someone’s score into the negatives. The last (and, to my knowledge, only) user that was proven to engage in that sort of voting behavior got banned for it, but it’s next to impossible to get someone to stay gone if they don’t want to with the administrative tools we have available.
Alternately, we have a fundie floating around who’s upset with MugaSofer’s portrayal of their sect, although our demographics are such that that’s probably not the most likely option.
A quick scan of the last couple of pages of MugaSofer’s comments seems to indicate that the last handful of comments have not received negative votes, and a long sequence of comments before that have consistently received a single negative vote each, which looks like systematic downvoting to me (by someone who hasn’t yet caught up) but of course is not remotely definitive.
That said, the net balance of them is generally positive, which means the negative balance isn’t accounted for either way.
I can give you a little more data—this has happened before, which is why I’m in the negatives. Which I guess makes it more likely to happen again, if I’m that annoying :/
It turned out to be a different person to the famous case, they were reasonable and explained their (accurate) complaint via PM. Probably not the same person this time, but if it happened once …