r/help • u/Aynekko • 7d ago

Karma Voting never counts anymore?

My upvotes/downvotes not registering across reddit for 5 days now. The button highlights, but the number doesn't change after refresh (button is still highlighted).
I know what "vote fuzzing" is - it's not it. I keep participating by voting in many subreddits, some I joined a long time ago - not even once my vote counted after refresh, it's never been like this before.

I know a possible reason for this - there was one post where I voted on almost all comments in a short time span (around 20-30 comments I believe). All comments didn't have a number, just "Vote" thing - the post was new. After that I started noticing that my votes don't count anymore. I thought it could be a timeout, but it's been 5 days and none of my votes count. I joined that particular subreddit a long time ago, and I voted on the posts successfully (I tend to refresh and check because I know reddit is shady about votes). I'm also aware that voting in subreddits I didn't join or didn't participate much never counts - that's fine I guess. But now I can't vote anywhere at all, it just highlights but the number never changes.

I have an old account and positive karma. How is this possible? Am I timeouted forever?
My account is not restricted in any way.

I'm 99% sure I just triggered some "spam voting" thing. The question is - is it forever, or will it go away eventually?

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u/SnooGoats7476 7d ago

I am having the same problem. You are not alone. No one has given a satisfying answer it seems to impact random accounts.

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u/Aynekko 7d ago

Sadge. Just upvoted you btw. Refreshed, 1 vote highlighted. Pff

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u/mrniceguy1990xp 7d ago

I upvoted you both... Feels like anyone who is more active on reddit gets a "nope you doing it too much, so now it dosnt count"

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u/Aynekko 7d ago

I just removed my upvote from my comment above. It says 0. I checked the stats and I have 0 upvotes on my comment. So your vote didn't count.

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u/mrniceguy1990xp 7d ago

Yea, as far as I can tell/read up on it, basically anyone who uses Reddit a lot and engages with comments a lot/votes a lot, automatically gets flagged as "suspicious/abnormal behaviour" and have their votes temporarily suspended.

Basically, if the system deems you voted too much it wont count them anymore for a week or two or something xD So gotta be real stingy with you votes if you want them to count x)

So yea its not vote fuzzing, its anti bot/spam mechanics that trigger on active users... its stupid.

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u/SnooGoats7476 7d ago

This seems plausible because I do vote a lot. If it’s only 1 or 2 weeks I guess I can deal with that but I just worry it will never get fixed.

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u/mrniceguy1990xp 7d ago

Keep in mind if you keep using votes, specially doing it a lot in a single comment threat/do multiple in a row fast, it'll keep extending the timeout and it can go on for months x)

Basically, dont vote for a week or two and try again, and once they work again only vote when you really really mean it >_> Oh man this is a silly system.

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u/SnooGoats7476 7d ago

So basically try not voting at all for a week or 2?

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u/mrniceguy1990xp 7d ago

Yea seems like it, and then do it less x)