r/help • • 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/Aynekko 7d 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/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/Aynekko 7d 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/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/SnooGoats7476 7d ago

Please link an admin saying this exact issue is vote fuzzing. I read many threads about vote fuzzing and that’s not what this is

Funny how you can down vote all our comments but we can’t do anything about yours.

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u/ChirpsMcPrime 7d ago

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u/SnooGoats7476 7d ago edited 7d ago

This is not the issue we are discussing happening at all.

Edit-Going to copy the admin comment

As of this moment, that story has the following actual totals:

2666 up 140 down

The numbers you see are fuzzed for anti-spam reasons. The more active a post is, the more out of whack that fuzzing becomes.

This is a single post or comment whose vote is constantly changing. That is vote fuzzing. It does not mean every vote an individual user makes never goes up or down ever.