Why are posts suddenly getting 20+ downvotes in the span of minutes?

kda akali·12/3/2019, 10:18:07 PM·2 votes·4,924 views

It's on mostly gameplay, some posts which have positive/neutral upvotes and downvotes are getting like 20-30 downvotes in the span of half an our? Just random posts getting mass downvoted. The posts aren't even negative or have anything absurd in them, they're just normal gameplay posts.

8 Comments

ModThe Djinn12/3/2019, 11:59:15 PM7 votes

There's a downvote bot, and it's frustrating.

The problem is that if we turn off voting we have the following issues:

  1. Discussion view doesn't work as intended.
  2. Best and Hot sorting no longer work, losing a lot of valuable old threads.
  3. The Home page doesn't work properly.
  4. Players like voting (as we've found out from previous experiments with disabling it).

We're continuing to discuss the issue internally, and if we find any good solutions we'll implement them.

Pyrosan12/3/2019, 10:20:22 PM3 votes

Someone's running around with an upvote and downvote BOT, nothing anyone can do about it apart from lock threads due to it

deadmendontlie12/3/2019, 10:28:17 PM1 votes

I would also say that if you do say something slightly controversial or upsetting people will mass downvote and flame in comments. Also bots like others have said.

Agent Corgi12/4/2019, 6:08:35 PM1 votes

There's someone on the Boards abusing an Upvote/Downvote Bot, this means certain posts like your typical "MODS ARE TYRANTS" or "Riot Bad" posts will more than likely get upvoted through the roof. Meanwhile decent posts regarding stuff like Gameplay or posts made by Mods will get mass downvoted.