Check your downvote history
37 2013-04-27 by Dirty_Martini__
On a whim I recently checked my downvote history and was shocked. Plenty of ideas I would have supported were downvoted. Some in subs I never even visit. This got me thinking how clever a stategy it was. Since you recieve feedback on your comments and have a high chance of noticing descepancies in the things you upvote, this was the best way to inflence reddit undetected for the longest period of time. Clearly my account was hacked or I'm Tyler Durden. Word of caution, "check your downvote history", then change your password. Now I just need to review the full history, and set right the karmic imbalance.
28 comments
6 sydewayzsoundz 2013-04-27
Wow..I have a bunch of stuff that has been downvoted too....and like you, some was shit I had never visited before...very very strange...Thank you for catching that!!
2 ingy2012 2013-04-27
Yup me too. Switched them all to upvotes.
3 sydewayzsoundz 2013-04-27
I tried but they were all closed threads.
3 ingy2012 2013-04-27
Btw have you ever been threatened with a messge that called you by name and mentioned your family members because I just got one today.
2 sydewayzsoundz 2013-04-27
No I never did what did it say
1 ingy2012 2013-04-27
Nvm just my cousin fucking with me lol
1 space_walrus 2013-04-27
Someone may have compromised your email. Change the password now, and do the same for all your other online accounts, especially your bank.
6 designerbay 2013-04-27
Everything looks about right to me...
3 davidverner 2013-04-27
Same here, still I helped spread the word and it's a quick and easy check to make sure if your account is compromised or not. This is something I didn't think of before security wise and now will check on this kind of stuff in the future.
1 moparornocar 2013-04-27
I had random ones I did not remember downvoting, but then remembered I spammed the shit out of a bunch for the Orangered/Periwinkle war and realized that is where they all came from.
5 Cujospup 2013-04-27
Yup, confirmed on my account as well. I would suspect it's a reddit thing before a hacked account thing being that some of the subs I've downvoted in are very petty and can't be of any real significance.
-3 Dirty_Martini__ 2013-04-27
How is this thread even downvoted?
1 streetyouth 2013-04-27
maybe you caught onto something
4 billdietrich1 2013-04-27
My downvote history looks okay. I use RES.
1 [deleted] 2013-04-27
wooooah, I have some shit downvoted in r/gmomyths...never visited that before.
1 dafragsta 2013-04-27
This is definitely happening. I posted about it earlier. Look at my highly controversial link submission history.
1 Meister_Vargr 2013-04-27
So /r/conspiracy subscribers were secretly responsible for their own downvotes?
Ingenious!
1 frostyllamas 2013-04-27
The best way to do it would just be to make new accounts and use those to downvote so that nobody would notice what's up with their history. That or, y'know, just edit the scores in the DB.
1 Dirty_Martini__ 2013-04-27
Looks like the android app "reddit is fun". Sucks cause this is the best mobile client i've found. But with pw reset on formatted phone it pretty much proves it. After 24 hours I have 30-40 invalid downvotes to correct. Uninstalled:/
-4 [deleted] 2013-04-27
I don't have any dislikes in my history. Am I checking the wrong place, I'm sure I've downvoted people before.
-2 Cujospup 2013-04-27
When you click your name there's a tab at the top for 'dislikes'. That should be it.
-4 sansfolly 2013-04-27
I'm using RES, is anyone that was affected using it also? The account switcher isn't working but I'm using a trick listed in /renhancement where you log out then click the alien and scroll down to the other ID and you're there, no need to sign in.
-5 sansfolly 2013-04-27
Mine too, sr's and topics I've never visited. Bizarre.
-5 knoblauch 2013-04-27
I created a bot to follow and downvote everybody subscribed to this sub.
6 Cujospup 2013-04-27
That's cool. But, I think you need to re-read what the OP said.
0 knoblauch 2013-04-27
I created TWO bots to follow and downvote everybody subscribed to this sub.
7 Cujospup 2013-04-27
Still not on topic.
-6 OWNtheNWO 2013-04-27
OMG, this is 100% true I'm looking at my dislike history right now, screenshots forthcoming.
3 ingy2012 2013-04-27
Btw have you ever been threatened with a messge that called you by name and mentioned your family members because I just got one today.