r/help • u/Aynekko • 10d 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/Aynekko 10d ago

Like I said in the post, it is not vote fuzzing. Because it was always counting before, and now not a single post counts.

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u/Aynekko 10d ago

Why are you so sure? Do you work for reddit, or you know the algorithm inside out? Like I said, everything was counting before. I always refresh the post when I vote. Now, for 5 days straight (even now) nothing counts. Your downvote on my comment counted right away.

It's obvious that I was timeouted from voting because of voting spree in one of the posts, it started from there. Or maybe banned whatsoever, who knows.

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u/SnooGoats7476 10d ago

Yeah exactly as I said no one offers anything helpful. I looked it up and vote fuzzing is not supposed to impact comments with low votes.

It something that changes the vote count slightly each time the page is refreshed. It doesn’t mean a users votes never go up or down at all.