I have already contacted the administrator about it, but he said that the votes on my posts and comments seem legitimate as far as he checked.
But I still highly doubt so.
Here is a pattern that I notice:
- On every single post and comment I made, without exception, there is at least one downvote.
- Also, these downvotes keep appearing all at once (i.e. when the mass-downvoter sends his next wave of downvotes)
- My score recently dropped from +12 to -19 within one hour without any new posts. The only way this this could have happened is that someone speervoted me.
I highly suspect that it's the same account downvoting everything I post and comment, because the happenings speak in favour of that theory.
These targeted downvotes can impossibly be legitimate.
I am writing this because many more people might be affected. It is a loophole and might discourage many more users.
I suggest implementing automated algorithms that prevent speervoting, which is an abuse of the voting systems.
Also, I kindly ask any administrator to confirm that the mass-downvotes on my submissions and comments are not coming from the same user.
I am more likely to upvote you to try to offset some of the consistent downvoting, but so far I don't like your stuff.
One has to work with the rules of the platform you're using. If it was my site I'd make a few changes, but it's not. This site allows users limitless downvotes: some will take advantage of that, and in the end it's up to the admins to guess at rules that will create the sort of website they want.