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I was reading What is serial voting and how does it affect me? on meta stackexchange, and I realised that when browsing through the recent code-golf submissions (as I do a few times a week) I often go through the posts and upvote good answers. A few people (Dennis, Martin Ender, Luis Mendo) provides very good solutions, almost on a daily basis, causing me to upvote them 5-6 times within a 10-minute period regulary.

Will this cause any trouble for me or them, and do I risk that these votes gets blocked due to serial voting?

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    \$\begingroup\$ Incidentally: hey, thanks for that! :-) \$\endgroup\$
    – Luis Mendo
    Dec 20, 2016 at 21:45
  • \$\begingroup\$ The serial voting detection algorithm is not public, but I guess Dennis, Martin or Luis could let us know if they often get upvotes from rep reversed. \$\endgroup\$
    – trichoplax is on Codidact now
    Dec 22, 2016 at 1:25
  • \$\begingroup\$ @trichoplax It has never happened to me AFAIK. Clearly, my answers are not good enough to trick the algorithm :-P \$\endgroup\$
    – Luis Mendo
    Dec 22, 2016 at 18:03

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Probably not. 5-6 votes in 10 minutes usually isn't enough to be considered serial voting. Doing this over a long period of time might get the votes reversed, but you can always go back and re-vote (more slowly, with other votes interspersed) if it happens. The serial voting detection is usually smart enough to not trigger on someone upcoming a few users because they make good content that is worthy of upvotes.

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