Timeline for Why were people upvoting spam
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| Jul 11, 2023 at 17:52 | comment | added | Martin | To have some stats, I have tried to get from SEDE recent upvotes on the posts flagged as spam: data.stackexchange.com/academia/query/1768143/… (I have briefly mentioned this query in chat, too.) | |
| Jul 7, 2023 at 21:03 | answer | added | Starship | timeline score: -3 | |
| Jul 7, 2023 at 16:13 | comment | added | Makyen | I didn't see this wave, so can't actually say what happened, but it doesn't require upvotes in order to bypass the system rate limits. It's quite possible to bypass the rate limits without upvotes. Being upvoted does make it easier, due to relaxing the restrictions, but it's not necessary. Without upvoting, spammers have been successful in bypassing the rate limits in the past by about an order of magnitude more than was done here. Upvoting would have more effect if SmokeDetector was currently running, because SD does take the poster's reputation into account to apply/not apply some rules. | |
| Jul 7, 2023 at 15:42 | vote | accept | Starship | ||
| Jul 7, 2023 at 15:39 | answer | added | Anyon | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jul 7, 2023 at 15:14 | history | asked | Starship | CC BY-SA 4.0 |