Here I submit for your intellectual theorizing and cranial displeasure four specimens:
http://imgur.com/piX9QNi
http://imgur.com/vgUxY2G
http://imgur.com/yrHsReG
http://imgur.com/IFzc3YI
The first two, being a pair and the rest the same. Check out the CCP in the first pair. Then, the time. In less than one minute the CCP mysteriously decreased. It's amazing I caught it. I was only aware of the points as I had just posted something on someone else's post about this individual being disinfo and attempting to hijack the top thread on Pizzagate. So I had been scrutinizing the points because ever since posting my comment I had noticed a steady amount of downvotes over a period of a couple of days after that comment. Consistent downvotes amounting to 1 or 2 per day. Sounds strange and absurdly natural but I never notice a steady amount of downvotes happening over a period of days due to a comment... submission perhaps, but not a comment (it does happen with comments, I well know, as I am rather outspoken on voat, but inside of a minute?) As well, once a certain thread that one comments on slides into the abyss after a few days if not terribly relevant, the votes usually come to somewhat of a halt... might get a few more stragglers but not much. For the second pair, the amount of points is considerably less. I only point out the latter pair for the sheer impractical nature of the votes decreasing in such a short time. In other words, it doesn't seem natural that one of my submissions had been downvoted by so many seemingly unrelated voaters inside of one minute (like last time.) In any case, I don't give two shits about the points, simply put. Could be bots, alts, shills, frills, and lacey bigfoot for all I care. I seek truth. That is all.
For what it's worth...
killer7 ago
Does it happen in every subverse you post?
kekistocrat ago
These (v/protectvoat and v/voatdev) are the first two I've posted in outside of v/pizzagate, so we'll see. So far, the downvoting seems to be slowing and someone mentioned it could perhaps be related to deleting of voaters; which could affect others' points (I was unaware.) Although I must say, in v/pizzagate, there is definitely some mod manipulation going on (relevant posts being deleted, certain voaters targeted, shitposting being allowed for way too long, etc.)