Someone downvoted 30+ posts on here, all in a few minutes. That's not really how downvoting is supposed to work. If people are submitting spammy or offtopic freelancer posts, then downvote them, or if a person has a really awesome freelance post, then upvote them, but don't game the system and make everyone's posts grey.
Agreed, I noticed a downvote and was concerned that I had unintentionally angered someone. Mass downvoting in this thread to push your name to the top is seriously inappropriate behavior.
This reminds me of the US elections - there are strict rules regulating financing ads for a candidate, so candidates wind up running a lot more ads against their opponents: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83262.html. Just another victim of the laws of unintended consequence I guess.
I'm not aware of campaign finance laws regulating positive or negative ad campaigns. It's not mentioned in the linked article, do you have another link?
Someone downvoted 30+ posts on here, all in a few minutes. That's not really how downvoting is supposed to work. If people are submitting spammy or offtopic freelancer posts, then downvote them, or if a person has a really awesome freelance post, then upvote them, but don't game the system and make everyone's posts grey.