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Voting by user is against the rules of Stack Overflow; if you intend to upvote this user's posts in order to reward them, the votes will be reverted and you mig
by wizzwizz4 5y ago
Voting by user is against the rules of Stack Overflow; if you intend to upvote this user's posts in order to reward them, the votes will be reverted and you might face disciplinary action.
- bool3max 5y agoHow would the platform distinguish those votes from regular ones?
- wizzwizz4 5y agoAs a network moderator, I actually know the answer to this, so I'm not going to openly speculate. Suffice to say, the rule is there for a reason (voting-by-user messes up the ordering of answers to each individual question), so please don't try a clever workaround just because you think you can.
- PascLeRasc 5y agoNavigating to an answer from the user's page only "shadow votes" it for you, it doesn't get counted.
- codehawke 5y agoAs a YouTuber, this has happened to me multiple times. It's fans or people trolling, they always remove the points though.