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Someone downvoted 30+ posts on here, all in a few minutes. That's not really how downvoting is supposed to work. If people are submitting spammy or offtopic freelancer posts, then downvote them, or if a person has a really awesome freelance post, then upvote them, but don't game the system and make everyone's posts grey.

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Seriously, what kind of person does that. If Dang has access to the downvoters name, maybe he should have his downvote permissions revoked.

Agreed, I noticed a downvote and was concerned that I had unintentionally angered someone. Mass downvoting in this thread to push your name to the top is seriously inappropriate behavior.

For what it's worth, I've upvoted all the other freelancers who were in the grey.

Thanks, that was extremely considerate of you

The account that did this is banned unless and until we get a promise that it will never happen again.

Personally, I wouldn't be offering any 'unless' for that type of behavior.

This reminds me of the US elections - there are strict rules regulating financing ads for a candidate, so candidates wind up running a lot more ads against their opponents: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83262.html. Just another victim of the laws of unintended consequence I guess.

I'm not aware of campaign finance laws regulating positive or negative ad campaigns. It's not mentioned in the linked article, do you have another link?

Downvoting should cost downvoter too.

There is a limit on the downvote/upvote ratio. At some point (relatively quickly) you lose downvote privileges if you start ass downvoting.

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