EDIT:Correction - it's every single post and comment they make
Check it out for yourselves. I can't post a screen shot because I'm too lazy to figure out how to get a shot that includes the mouse-hover text.
I think it's very unlikely to be 12 separate users who always dislike u/Corporis 's posts at around about the same time, lol. So it's bots or alts I guess, unless 12 different users want to weigh in and tell me I'm wrong. The most downvotes other users generally have in hot is 2-3. What do users think about this?
If this post turns nasty I'll be deleting it, just so you know.
EDIT: so as expected, it happened to this post too, and the comments have been vote manipulated. Hopefully genuine users here appreciate my drawing attention to this.
Sure he'd get a few genuine downvotes, but here was in the region of 10-12 extra down votes beyond what's normal. On every single post and comment. It is targeted, though my guess it's just a couple of users who have lots of alts they use for voting here, but don't make comments with (except to get enough points to downvote). We have a few users who seem to have been assigned here (or assigned themselves). No amount of banning deters them, they never contribute anything but hatred of the user base, they rarely make posts except to mock and they clearly have no interest in conspiracies whatsoever.
Thank you. I'm with you for the most part, except we can't really know at this stage who it is or how many people are involved. It is far too easy to do this, so it could literally be one person or even a government-level action.
I have noticed this pattern--usually in reverse--for a long time now on hundreds of posts and comments. Voting totally sucks.