A moderator is stalking me, downvoting and deleting my tried answer in seconds

Question

I read this question.

I went to do research on it. tried myself, searched on net, made changes and eventually I could find the answer of this question. I even tried 2-3 variations to find what is correct and is working.

I went back and posted my answer.

Within seconds of my posting the answer, some has downvoted it (I guess DavidPostill himself, unless 2-3 moderators are stalking me), and has deleted the answer saying that it is a comment and not an answer.

This is my file showing its name, content, and confirmation message that it has been merged in registry.

And this is the .reg file that gave message of successful addition.

What more can I do to show that I had really done it.

And now, undeleting the question requires 3-4 votes that I don't have and these people are not going to vote in my favor, and my valid answer disappeared from the world.

So I want to to say that DavidPostill is stalking me at Superuser.com, downvoting me deleting my tried answer in seconds and thereby now he is harming the site's resources by deleting valid proven answer to reach the person asking question and others in future.

This week itself, 6 downvotes on my questions or answers were reversed by system on account of system finding them serial downvoting.

Feeling discouraged by such serial downvoting and other behavior I had myself deleted several of my questions and answers thus lost some other upvotes and helpful flags also.

I must have got 20-30 downvotes on my posts in all sites here. They chase me in other sites of the group and downvote my posts there also.

They have also snatched away my privilege to post question there, so I have to come post here.

They have also removed several replies on a discussion that I had started and moved that to chat, to hide it from people. This way they are distorting history to make believe that such thought was never expressed and such things were never discussed.

Please give it a thought and see whether such unruly behavior of this site's moderator harassing and bullying and discouraging new members is what you had in mind when you created this site to help people.

Answer 1

I read this question.

I went to do research on it. tried myself, searched on net, made changes and eventually I could find the answer to this question. I even tried 2-3 variations to find what is correct and is working.

What you submitted was considered commentary. Commentary submitted as an answer will be flagged by the community and promptly deleted by the community through several votes or a binding moderator vote.

Within seconds of my posting the answer, some has downvoted it (I guess DavidPostill himself unless 2-3 moderators are stalking me), and has deleted the answer saying that it is a comment and not an answer.

Your answers are appearing in a community review queue that is currently empty. The queue being handled within minutes is not that odd.

And now, undeleting the question requires 3-4 votes that I don't have and these people are not going to vote in my favor, and my valid answer disappeared from the world.

Your answer is not going to be undeleted by the community because it is commentary.

Feeling discouraged by such serial downvoting and other behavior I had myself deleted several of my questions and answers thus lost some other upvotes and helpful flags also.

Removing contributions due to a couple downvotes which were reversed only will result in an answer ban. Several of your answers are extremely low quality. Hopefully, you only deleted answers which received downvotes or were consider commentary, instead of the contributions which received upvotes. You shouldn't delete any contributions to be honest.

They have also snatched away my privilege to post a question there, so I have to come to post here.

This is due to the low-quality questions you have asked in the past. You were warned of the quality of your previous questions before this happened. You will be allowed to ask another question at Super User in 6 months or when your contributions improve and receive enough upvotes. ALL contributions count towards the automatic system that determines if you can or cannot submit new questions and/or answers.

hey have also removed several replies on a discussion that I had started and moved that to chat, to hide it from people. This way they are distorting history to make believe that such thought was never expressed and such things were never discussed.

Your past commentary was either flagged by a community member and then deleted by a moderator or was converted into a chat.

As for your other answer that was also deleted, it was considered, the commentary also.

Please give it a thought and see whether such unruly behavior of this site's moderator harassing and bullying and discouraging new members is what you had in mind when you created this site to help people.

The removal of commentary that is being flagged for moderator review is not considered moderator harassment. It also is not considering bullying from the community. Your contributions have issues, I know I have provided feedback on a few of them and saw no attempt to address those issues with the contributions I provided feedback on.

Answer 2

OK, I’m not familiar with your history of contributions, so I can’t comment on that.

The tone of your (meta-) question (this one) is inappropriately accusatory, and I wonder whether you can produce any evidence to support those accusations.  (But it is suspiciously coincidental that an answer that got no votes or comments for 1½ years then got downvoted and deleted on the same day.)

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But — what am I missing?  How is the answer that is under discussion (currently 10K-only, but visible above) not an answer?  How is it any worse than the other answer to the same question?  The only issues I see are

• VSRawat’s answer has some overlap with the other one, and
• VSRawat’s answer was posted 22 minutes later.

But VSRawat’s answer has some information that isn’t in the first answer.  True, VSRawat’s answer doesn’t address the issue of specifying data in hex, which Gert Jan Kraaijeveld’s answer addresses — but so what?  The question wasn’t about that.

What am I missing?

Answer 3

This happened to me (it seemed). It went on for a year or two. Every question I posted immediately had a down vote or two within seconds. I brought it up to meta and they ganged up on me. Downvoted and closed questions and answers. It felt like the Elon Musk cult. They did nothing wrong and all fault was mine. I don't know what the word for this type of response is - invalidating, victim blaming, gaslighting, dismissing, responsibility-shifting, etc. But I've seen it in people IRL.

After posting on Meta, I found others making the same criticisms including comic panel writers.

But it's hard to prove. You can see who edits or closes your question. You can't see who downvotes you.

One user kept editing my posts and changing their meaning. Sometimes this user would make improvements fix typos, I didn't mind that but a few times they changed the meaning and so I reverted it back. They weren't facing this issue I was. So I put the original code back in and a note, "Do not edit my posts please". They kept removing the note. Then three mods came in and booted me off SO with a 3 day suspension.

I know we all come from different backgrounds so they feel justified for whatever they do. At the same time some people are not altruistic and petty and they probably were bothering you specifically. My point is, I wanted you to know that it happened to me too.

Mods are not above reproach. You get a certain rep and it's granted to you whether you're good at it or not. Some mod has a bad day and they take it out on your posts. Until they change some things, documented in numerous posts on meta, it will probably keep happening. Show the users votes, prevent posts from being edited / lock option, vote down bad moderators, etc.

Having said all that I think it's better than five years ago, but still vulnerable to abuse.