It's happening all the time. :p

Wait a minute, here is your evidence. I just lost four points and I wasn't logged on.

If some guy is really spending lots of hours to create 100 accounts to lower your rep, I'd say you are still better off than him.

You were ~170 yesterday. You were 177 at the beginning of today (you even noted how high your rep had gone up earlier). You're 176 now.

Edit: Oops, I was gone for a while and didn't see that you had jumped *up* 3 points since the beginning of the day. My bad. I apologize.

Yeah I don't buy that either, and anyway I don't care about the rep anymore. My point is that there are people abusing the system. I'm not going to say if that means it's good or bad or what, so long as I am allowed to hang out in here I'm cool.

Thank you.

When I logged on just now tinyE was at 180
Not in pse,

The anus is back on you now dude, when has it happened? I'd say GR did it, though only to promote himself not to aggress, and by his own admission that was only a few accounts and an OCD attitude.

It's so obvious, can't you see it? tinyE has multiple accounts that he uses to raise and lower HIS OWN REP! It's all a clever ruse!

At least, that's how I would do it.

He is an admitted "Attention Whore"...

Now that's a conspiracy theory that I can get behind! ;)

XD That would be something. Too bad I'm a computer idiot.

Is it too late to join the experiment?

I didn't say it was happening now. I said it could be happening and detailed how it could be done. Big difference.

You can't just dismiss a repeat of a known, publically documented occurence as a conspiracy theory because you don't think it is happening. It doesn't work like that.

I'm actually doing research into this to prove it one way or another because I care if it does out of principle. If yyahoo's rep started dropping like a rock because people started downrating every one of their posts, I'd be investigating/complaing about it even though I know they don't care.

Thank you wpegg.. for actually asking me to defend my argument, rather than just dismissing it.

Also, I'm going to presume you mean "onus", even if you didn't :P

There are other instances of people creating multiple accounts to increase their rep, such as vexxum (who sits pretty at 9, due to being found out). Is it important that it was done to increase rep? A system which uses the post rating system to increase rep of one person can be used to reduce the rep of one person.

I believe one of GOG's statements regarding the GR incident included that multiple accounts had been made "against" him, though admittedly, I may be remembering that incorrectly.

However, just to hammer this point home, I'm not claiming such a targetted attack is happening, I'm just arguing that it could happen and detailing how I would do it if I didn't like someone and held the view some people have expressed here (i.e. that it is okay to downrate a post because you don't like the person).

GR is actually a good example of why such abuse is bad. He did what he wanted and that included a lot of things that deserved to be downrated and they were. His rep dropped as a result and GOG stepped in. Then he came back and from what some people have said.. turned over a new leaf which can be a difficult thing to do (I didn't have enough involvement with him personally to make a judgement).

Now, if people were downrating posts due to their content, the "new and improved" GR would, eventually, carve a decent rep and everything would be fine.

If we condoned people downrating the posts just because they were made by GR, his rep would have continued to drop, albeit at a slower rate, because some people hold grudges and his "reward" for becoming a positively contributing member? Exactly the same as his punishment for being bad.
Now you've explained your position a little clearer, I understand it.

Just know that it has happened before and I know this because some people who have done it have admitted to it, pubilcly no less, and I believe GOG themselves confirmed that it had happened.

The only reason there is a limit to how much rep can change in a day is due to people abusing post rating system by having multiple accounts. The changes that were made may limit the change, but they do not stop it from happening (hence why it would take nearly 2 months to reduce ~200 rep to 0).
Nope. As soon as you post in this topic, your rep will start being recorded at the next interval.