Upvotes on Pokebase

Question

K, so it's something that I've been seeing for a little now.

People are randomly giving out upvotes to others for no good reason whatsoever, other than 'I feel like it' or 'I'm giving you wall-posting privileges' etc. etc., and upvoting the most basic questions and answers for those purposes.

I know that MetaKnight did it to Sassy Little Mawile (I talked to Hexy about it, but he probably doesn't remember that incident qq), and later Dragoon just upvoted Sassy again for no apparent reason (Star was present at that time, and I think she countered it in the end). Pokemon123 went around chat and asked 'Be4 I go does anyone want an upvote?' and also went around upvoting Immortalkitty for, and I quote, 'Because I wanted to'.

The link for "Be4 I go..." is a screenshot. The rest are profile links qq.
Immortalkitty's profile, with countered upvotes.

While I know that these aren't in any way serious cases, they still are against the rules. e-e

Oh, and please remove MetaKnight's spam upvotes.

Comments

I think upvoting to give someone wall posting privileges is fine, but upvoting for no reason makes no sense. xD

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I emailed Pm personally about MetaKnight.

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I edited a bunch of grammar and spelling. Jeez semp ~.~

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People can really upvote whatever they want for what reason they have except spam voting, but if they outrightly say "oh yea do you want an upvote?" and give votes on that basis then something should be done.
& MetaKnight's spam votes have been there for months.

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Fondant, my little chinchilla, here's what's up:

People ARE up voting questions of the highest bidder and/or spam up voting. That is the issue.

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I thought the issue pointed out here was that people were upvoting for no reason? Spam voting is usually more clear cut & therefore dealt with much easily, but in this instance it's more of a: "hey who wants an upvote"/ "I'll take one"/ "sure" +1. Therefore it's not spamming because it's not a huge amount at one time, and not really bidding because there's no exchange?

Also my gravatar's of flying squirrels.

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I just wanted to say chinchilla though T.T

I use the term "bidder" metaphorically in the fact that people 'bid' (ask) for upvotes and the first person gets the upvotes. Maybe more.

And, as Semp said, this isn't a smashing issue. Just a minor nuance.

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seriously thoug, i have no problem if a guy gets two up-votes because the voter "wanted too",.this is a very minor problem and nothing to worry about. its the the same about meta-knight

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Its a minor problem guys. You act like its the end of the world for a few upvotes. People know who there givin them to. For like to post on walls again that's all.

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inb4 you are the one who is doing it

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Scraffeh, you editted in pretty much nothing helpful.
No offense. xD

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Ikr
I'm with indi o3o

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One or two votes is fine, but if this continues to happen with the same users over and over again, it would be seriously unfair to other people.

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I edited a few grammar issues. No biggie~

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There is a very fine line between voting for no reason and spam up-voting. Technically, the person you upvote doesn't have to be the same person. If you're giving away tons of free points then it's still spam. Asking for votes is outright rule breaking. Not a major issues obvi, but it gets annoying.

On the bases of "giving upvotes cos they wanted too", this does actually lead to the same thing with downvotes. As long as you don't get spammed with them constantly, people would lose points over it. Again, not a massive issue, but it goes through the same gateway, so to speak.

One more thing, users with points to spare are free to give the odd downvote to this type of thing. as long as you don't get mistaken for spam downvotes, correcting votes as it were is fine. It's only 2 points for you and you get them back eventually anyway xD

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Here Here!

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Bumpy.

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Don't worry! If people are breaking the rules, they will eventually suffer the consequences. The mods know how to deal with this, I'm sure they've seen incidents like this before. Thanks for letting the moderators know!

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People also tend to upvote higher ranked users even if their answer is not 100% correct or even if the other answers are clearly better. I've seen it happen quite a few times in a short period of time and biased upvoting is annoying ¬＿¬.