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I got a voting correction "out of the blue". It's not much so I don't care about the rep change very much. But I was wondering where (which answers/questions) and why it was applied. I haven't been very active in the past few weeks, and there was no significant reputation change so the sudden correction is rather strange. How do I get more information?

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  • meta.stackexchange.com/questions/362020/… possibly related - might have happened across the network. I have.. theories but nothing concrete and some of the information is 'private'.
    – Journeyman Geek Mod
    Commented Mar 13, 2021 at 9:06
  • thanks for the hint... yeah... curious if there will be an official statement.
    – Albin
    Commented Mar 13, 2021 at 17:01
  • Still chewing on throwing that a status review
    – Journeyman Geek Mod
    Commented Mar 13, 2021 at 17:31
  • meta.stackexchange.com/a/362059/135565 will post a proper answer later now that it turns out I was right and it's public 😁
    – Journeyman Geek Mod
    Commented Mar 14, 2021 at 2:17
  • Sounds plausible, it would have been interesting to see the questions/answers the votes were removed from...
    – Albin
    Commented Mar 14, 2021 at 6:05

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Essentially - a user was found voting things randomly across the network to try to earn badges. The user's votes were invalidated across the network, resulting in a 'serial voting corrected' message. The serial voting was unusually across the network and spread across many users - hence individual reputation change being for 1-2 votes unlike the more typical serial voting involving many votes for one user on one site.

I can't really share anything other than what's on the MSE post but this is probably the reason.

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