What is the maximum amount of downvotes for one user's questions/answers by another user?

Question

In my previous question I did not get my answer and instead of it I have been suspended and did not get the reason. I think it was to make cool down mods and some other users who are angry about my questions however I cannot find why a question can make the others angry! There is no insult or wrong request in my questions unless to guide me how I can use my right in voting like the others to some questions which are wrong or are non constructive in my own opinion. I hope you are relax now and can read my questions in peace! :)

How many times can I down vote questions of one user( I think it is clear which I do not mean downvoting to one user not his/her questions on purpose but his/her trivial question/answers by accident!) ? Please consider that I am not able to read minds of mods and find their tastes! I need rules in FAQ to show me how many times for example after 5 times I cannot downvote to questions of one user and if I try it I will be suspended unless I am a mod or I am trying it in one week with some rests not in one hour!

To make it easier:

Which of following answers are correct about this question:

1. One time.
2. Two times and less.
3. Three times and less.
4. Five times and less.
5. It depends on whom you are downvoting!
6. It depends on the mods imagination and the case.
7. It is in the FAQ!

I hope to get a very clear and related answer in short sentences. Long-winded answers make me confused.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

How many times can I down vote questions of one user?

You shouldn't be looking to downvote questions of one user, this is just plain wrong and I imagine the reason you were suspended. Please do not target specific users with your votes (up or down), instead vote for posts. You shouldn't care at all who the author of the post is, the only thing you should care about is how helpful and well researched the post is.

Furthermore, the mechanics of the serial voting script are intentionally kept vague to prevent people from gaming the system. If you knew that you could downvote another user's posts x times per day and get away with it, then what's stopping you from downvoting x posts every day for ever?

What I can tell you is that the rules are the same for everyone, on every Stack Exchange site. It doesn't depend on whom you are downvoting or on the mods' imagination, there is an automated process that detects serial voting, and it runs the same checks on everyone's account.

I am a moderator on two Stack Exchange sites and I was caught by the script once, having a diamond (or two) and lots of rep is irrelevant.

Answer 2

Which of following answers are correct about this question:

None of them. It's not about who you vote for, it's about how you vote.

You can find the canonical answer to this question here:

As of today, we have several queries that look for unusual downvote patterns. If we discover these patterns in a given user’s voting history, we view all their downvotes for that user as suspect. They’re all silently deleted, and any lost reputation is restored to the unfortunate target of these downvotes.

In other words, it's the wrong question to be asking; if you need to know this, you're doing it wrong. Vote on the content, not the person. If you find yourself going through someone's profile down-voting everything they've written, stop and ask yourself:

• Is this person blatantly abusing the site by posting nothing but low-quality content? If so, flag one of their posts for moderator attention and explain the situation; they may need a talking-to.

• Have I become overly fixated on the personality of the person involved? Did they annoy me in some fashion, to where I'm now being exceptionally critical of their work vs. the work of others on the site? If so, stop, walk away from your computer, and calm down. You're not being objective, and this is likely skewing your voting.

Note that moderators can't see individual votes - only patterns. If a moderator is chiding you for abusive voting, chances are the system has detected something unusual in how you're casting your votes; if you do not heed their advice and adjust your behavior, you'll probably find your votes invalidated and possibly even your account suspended.

Answer 3

The answer to your question is "as many as you feel are needed and appropriate". We have suggested that you read the FAQ so that you would have a better understanding of what is appropriate and what reasons would justify the downvoting of a question or an answer.

Having said that, if we see that you are going through every question or answer that was posted by one individual, or by a small group of individuals, then we see that as an attack on that individual. You don't downvote posts because of the individual, you downvote them because of the content.

A very clear indication is an answer that has received 16 consecutive upvotes, and then suddenly receives one downvote. Then we observe that several other answers by the same individual, all with more than ten upvotes and no downvotes, start to receive single downvotes, and they are all from the same individual. I give this specific example because this actually happened (but I'm not saying it was you who did it).

Quite frankly, unless you are going through every Q&A on the site and downvoting only the ones that have already received multiple downvotes, you are going to be flagged. It doesn't matter if you use one or one hundred, if they are not justified, then you will be suspeneded again, and this time for a longer period.