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2:50 AM

Someone has just upvoted 10+ of my answers in rapid succession. They all appear to be my most upvoted answers so it seems like they were going through my profile to upvote. I'm quite curious to know why someone would do that. I can understand serial downvoting if someone is angry at me, but serial upvoting? Are they playing the long con so I get to see -100 due to serial voting reversal?

Now they've slowed down a bit (I'm at I think 14 upvotes now?) so it seems like at least they're reading my posts, but it's still a bit confusing. I've never been serial upvoted before.

3:11 AM

they might actually find your answers interesting and not be aware of the serial voting thing

The speed at which they can read my posts puts Kim Peek to shame.

\o/

At worst someone gets suspended

Will the upvotes be reversed?

If its serial votes? Its automated

Well it's up to like 15 now, so I guess it'll be reversed. Oh well.

3:18 AM

You never had those votes anyway

rip my reputation

Its ok, you will always have a bad reputation :D

More seriously, once again, you never really had that reputation and you'll likely earn it back in 6-8

Lets say...

you loose 200 rep in a reversal

how long can you earn that back in? 2-3 weeks?

3:49 AM

Effectiveness Vs. Efficacy - IRL Vs. Testing:

Vaccine efficacy

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M.A.R.

6:22 AM

> An event is starting in 9 minutes in Tavern on the Meta - "Happy Hour"

Eternal March?

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7:50 AM

> If no woman can be found for couples marriage then I would definitely settle for Mary a adult film actress who is very new and active in her career.

I think this person needs to adjust their expectations. And read the site FAQ.

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On a related note, metasmoke.erwaysoftware.com is so slow it hurts. It almost makes me want to offer web hosting for free just so it doesn't take so damn long to load....

8:09 AM

Please don't insult Thomas Ward and the hosting is already free. Against crappy software not enough hardware exist to compensate for the dumb implementation choices.

Oh I've hosted services that were incredibly slow. No insults intended. :P

I wonder how much of the poor performance can be mitigated by configuration changes.

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12:14 PM

@TheforestofReinstateMonica MetaSmoke is open source. If you prep a proper performance test-rig to validate your config changes do indeed improve stuff I'm sure the Charcoal crew and Thomas will be happy to accept your proposals.

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4:02 PM

You can't be this Armchair Quarterback and Backseat Driver:

@rene, now surpassed 10K images of Mars.

DavidPostill

4:44 PM

Status: Covid Jab #1 complete - AstraZenica 💉👍

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terdon

6:45 PM

@DavidPostill yay! Well done! :)

Glorfindel

7:05 PM

TIL: if you want to post a Hot Network Question, post it on Sunday.

7:17 PM

@Rob yes! With images of its own tracks. And they dropped something: mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/… was that the protection for the helicopter?

@rene VideosFromSpace's YouTube Channel says it's the sampling systems belly pan cover.

They have been for a (very) little drive recently.

Never on a Sunday.

7:37 PM

@Rob Yeah, on Sundays it is always get crowded. I guess they try to keep their social distancing with the martians ...

😀

@Rob nice. I didn't find those yet. That is cool.