Almost every day I get the message "Serial voting was reversed", which makes me lose rating points. What is it and how do I make it stop?
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Dmitry, I'm sorry about this. Please be assured that we have hopefully identified the cause and have dealt with this as well as we could.
I can't go into details, but basically the mods found a widespread problematic voting pattern which, though not your fault in any way, was clearly against site guidelines. These votes disproportionately affected users active in certain tags. We have just had all such votes invalidated, whereas previous such votes were only invalidated in smaller batches, leading to the annoying repeated "corrections" that you noticed.
These invalidations were intentional. The reversed votes should not have been given in the first place. We hope that this will not happen again.
Please see this related old meta: What is "Serial Voting" & why was it selectively reversed?
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$\begingroup$ Thanks for the clarification $\endgroup$Dmitry Kamenetsky– Dmitry Kamenetsky2026-02-02 23:08:40 +00:00Commented Feb 2 at 23:08