Can the admin please check my account for an instance of serial down voting?

Question

I've been the target of serial down voting before, so I'm familiar with the auto-script that will undo it if triggered, but the exact trigger is not publicly known. I'm also familiar with the secrecy of votes in general and that only certain developers can view them under certain circumstances. This seems like a certain circumstance that warrants a look to verify whether there's been a misuse of the SE system.

I don't participate much here. As such, my reputation changes are few and far between. Yesterday I received two downvotes only a minute apart. Today I received another. All three were on different questions. My rep changes before that are 2 upvotes 5 days before and 1 upvote over a month ago, all on questions I asked at that time. The last time I received a downvote (1 of 2 total) was nearly 2 years ago.

These recent downvotes are highly unusual.

Answer 1

The patterns of voting that you've experienced aren't unusual, nor do they represent "serial downvoting", even if it's the same person that has downvoted you.

Pretty much any time serial downvoting occurs is when a user disagrees with something another user has posted, either as an answer or comment. The user then visits their profile and, like with serial upvoting, systematically visits their posts and downvotes them.

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Although it's not nice for your posts to get downvoted, unless there's evidence of systematic downvotes (e.g. more than three), you shouldn't expect any action to be taken. This is simply a normal part of how the site works and one of the downsides of users being able to see each other's posts.

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As to why you've experienced downvoting, my money would be on the fact that you've been more active in the last couple of days, posting a question and a couple of comments about Dune. Probably someone was looking at a couple of your questions (via your profile) and just didn't like a couple of them.

Personally, I don't see the occasional downvote as a bad thing. It's your wake-up call to see if the question/answer could be improved by sorting out the formatting, checking the sources or rewording it to be more clear. You definitely won't get it reversed by complaining, but you might get it reversed by improving the question.