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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.
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.
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.