Anything can be gamed, we don't need to look much further than the US election to see that. I will be going over the vote registration for this whole post to see if the numbers add up as they should, if anything is off we will work out what happened and post an update. I do however have a feeling that if its anything, it's very likely a display error in regards to the down votes. Either way, the spam account has been suspended for posting spam, and I found another matching the same IP address that I have also taken care of. It's possible there is at least one up vote from the other account which could have contributed to the post becoming more visible.
Anything can be gamed, we don't need to look much further than the US election to see that. I will be going over the vote registration for this whole post to see if the numbers add up as they should, if anything is off we will work out what happened and post an update. I do however have a feeling that if its anything, it's very likely a display error in regards to the down votes. Either way, the spam account has been suspended for posting spam, and I found another matching the same IP address that I have also taken care of. It's possible there is at least one up vote from the other account which could have contributed to the post becoming more visible.