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I seem to have gained a downvote on at least the first two pages of my comment history, dropping from 83% positive to 69% positive in the space of a day. I remember mass-downvoting was a big issue here a while back, did we find a way to fix it or did we just ban one or two prolific mass-downvoters?
I'm not angry and seeking revenge and/or compensation, after all I'm still positive for this month, but I'm curious what if anything to do about it. And a bit annoyed that my curiosity about who I've offended and how isn't going to be satisfied because they decided on a downvote campaign instead of replying to whichever comment set them off.
One more has been banned, and it looks like a new one has turned up. I'm waiting for tech support to give me the name. I'll pass your complaint on to them.
Can you, in interests of transparency, let the community know who the new banned individual is?
I can, but I'm not sure whether it would be a good idea.
Would people with experience of moderating care to weigh in on this?
I think two prolific mass-downvoters were banned, and they were almost certainly the same person. (Eugine_Nier, and then Azathoth123 who was generally reckoned to be Eugine_Nier redivivus.) There have been other reports of mass-downvoting since then, though not on the same lavish scale; I think (but this may just be confirmation bias) that the ones I've heard of have, like the earlier ones, shown some sign of being triggered by the victims' expressing non-neoreactionary views on gender, race, etc. I wouldn't be terribly surprised to learn that the individual behind the Eugine_Nier and Azathoth123 accounts is still around and up to the same tricks as before, just a little less vigorously.
Having said all of which, I don't see anything in your recent comment history that seems like it would annoy a Eugine-like mass-downvoter particularly. Nor in fact anything that seems like it would annoy anyone very much. So maybe there's someone around who just thinks it's fun to hit people with lots of downvotes for no reason at all.
More confirmation: I'm also a victim, and it started during this thread.
I've been tempted to donate some small amount to a progressive cause just to annoy whoever it is, but that would seem to incentivise false-flag attacks.
I've lost around 60 points in the past couple months despite hardly commenting at all (haven't spent much time here recently). I did get a smaller swarm of downvotes in September for this comment, in which I was grumpy at Azathoth123 on the subject of gender.