14 Comments

ModThe Djinn11/26/2018, 4:28:08 AM10 votes

While frustrating, this isn't really something that is reportable -- it's an impossible task, realistically, for us to investigate and confirm down-vote or up-vote related activity, and players are allowed to downvote content they don't like. Can it be abused sometimes? Yes, but that's ultimate a price we need to pay to allow the functionality to exist at all, and we've found many board members really value the ability to downvote something.

Also, it's worth noting that C&C can be fickle at times -- the occasional downvote here and there is totally normal.

Dynikus11/26/2018, 4:27:05 AM5 votes

Have you considered that someone just didn't like the skin concept?

Silly Neeko11/26/2018, 4:26:58 AM1 votes

Theres no random picture? And tbh, they are not worth worrying about. Some people are just haters and haters gotta have someone to hate. Be glad that you have their attention enough to catch their fancy xD

DM For Rat Facts11/26/2018, 4:27:31 AM1 votes

Who, and report for what?

SEKAI11/26/2018, 5:20:14 AM1 votes

I think in your case, it's not likely to have all been the same person, and even if it is, it is not likely that they're doing it out of spite against you especially since it is far more likely that it's just about them having a different taste to you. Usually, people don't get so riled up over something like skin concept that they stalk and downvote others just for the hell of it.

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Usually the stalking target downvote against a particular person happens in ways you intuitively know is likely from a particular person or at least some guy from their camp of supportors, as the point of the exercise is often to protest against you silently, "both of you know what's going on but no one will say anything" kind of deal.

From what I understand of such behaviour, this really only happens after you having certain hot debates (because internet argument is such a serious business, amiright guys? Huh, what do you mean, "No"?). After certain hot debates, every now and then I'd be downvoted for every post I wrote and almost as soon as I wrote them, even if the post I wrote was clearly inoffensive and can't really be wrong for anything, but ofc the downvote knows no bounds. That is when I know someone is out to get me, and the behaviour usually ceases within a few hours as they got bored of it or simply because they cooled down (but I've got a couple instances where it went on longer, though that mostly happened on OCE boards/forum before it became a ghost-town where due to low user count so if you've wronged someone you kind of wrong them for life, or at least a few days).