If tye is accurate in stating that the problem has been fixed as of today, then I won't be launching any scripts of my own.

It's just that I had asked tye a month ago to look into this, and his reply was basically that people are free to spend their votes as they wish. So I figured I'd take matters into my own hands, and go public with it, and spend my votes as I wish, consistent with his position.

I'll be watching over the next week or two to see if the situation has been rectified.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

update: Addressing the point in
Anyone as famous as you is bound to attract negative votes; just think of them as a sort of badge of honor.
I am fully accustomed to getting downvotes on individual postings (including the head of this thread). What isn't sensible to me is someone systematically downvoting many many posts per night. Perhaps the intention is to ensure that I'm removed from the top (second?) spot on the XP chart, but it's certainly not related to any individual post.

In reply to Re^2: Looking for "random upvote" script by merlyn
in thread Looking for "random upvote" script by merlyn

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