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NOMOCHOMO ago

2 hours in: 6 upvoats 5 downvoats

So you downvoat out of suspicion, not rule violations, nor post quality.

noted.

The reason I tagged you? I just saw you make this comment:

https://voat.co/v/aacce/3411836/20448774

Trickle down-voting

To down-vote without causing this uproar[, experienced when our mass-voting was obvious,] we tried a variation — “trickle down-voting”. The mass down-vote strategy threw every sock puppet at each new link, keeping its score well below zero, but this was noticeable.

A refinement of the technique was to keep the score as close to zero as possible; this meant that each new post’s score had to be monitored and as soon as up-votes were detected, our sock puppets were dispatch to counteract it with a down-vote.

We ran this for several days without users noticing, and was considered a success.

NOMOCHOMO ago

3 Hours: 8 up 5 down

3.3 Hours: 9 up 5 down