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Something interesting happened today.

My notifications had filled up with a series of upvotes. At some point a serial upvote threshold was exceeded, and the upvotes were reversed.

I get why such a serial-upvoting-policy is in place; you cannot not have it.

(I have reviewed the posts about upvoting reversal that stackexchange has found for me, such as the What is serial voting and how does it affect me? post.)

Question:
Is there a way for me to check out the exact timeline of those upvotes? That's just for my curiosity; it would make a difference whether the upvotes were seconds apart, or a sizable amount of time apart.


Just to to avoid misunderstanding: I'm not proposing a change of policy. I can see how the policy is a necessity.

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To see the times associated with reputation changes from your user profile, click the "reputation" tab. You can view reputation changes grouped by post, by time (which is what you want), or as a zoomable daily summary graph.

Here's a screenshot of my profile view on another site where I'm a low-privilege user:

screenshot of user profile showing reputation changes with timestamps

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  • $\begingroup$ There seems to be some form of misunderstanding here. Is it perhaps the case that moderators have access to a much higher granularity timeline? On the 'Reputation' overview, the 'graph' view: it only says the day. I uploaded a screenshot (screenshot is shrunk 50%) i.sstatic.net/MEsIWOpB.png In the graph view I can click on a date, for instance 24th of May, and the view then shows the reputation changes over that entire day. As far as I can tell there is no provision to switch to a view that displays the timeline counted in smaller time intervals, such as by hour/minute/second $\endgroup$ Commented May 26 at 9:24
  • $\begingroup$ @Cleonis Hover over a date in that list with your cursor -- it will show you the exact time in the tooltip. (if it's recent, instead of a date it will be written "Yesterday" or something similar. Hover over this text in that case). $\endgroup$ Commented May 26 at 10:21
  • $\begingroup$ @Amit Ah, hovering. The intervals range from 2 minutes, to often 5 minutes, and up to 15 minutes, with occasionally longer than that, including a 5 hour interval. That is consistent with someone binge reading. $\endgroup$ Commented May 26 at 11:02
  • $\begingroup$ @Cleonis yes I see ;) FYI also, this information is public, anyone can see it. $\endgroup$ Commented May 26 at 11:04
  • $\begingroup$ @Cleonis I added a screenshot of my view on a site where I don't have many privileges. I wonder if I changed a display preference at some point to show more precise times? $\endgroup$ Commented May 26 at 17:42
  • $\begingroup$ @rob Things have been clarified now. I wrote it up in a new answer. $\endgroup$ Commented May 31 at 8:11
  • $\begingroup$ uh oh, we know you downvoted a post now! $\endgroup$ Commented May 31 at 12:11
  • $\begingroup$ @KyleKanos I promise I have downvoted other posts since 2023 — just not on that site, which I don't visit much. $\endgroup$ Commented Jun 1 at 15:00
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The 'time' view of the 'Reputation' view has, it turns out, some properties you wouldn't expect.

Reputation changes that occurred more than two days prior are displayed with a time stamp that gives date, hour and minute.

However, for changes of reputation that occurred two days prior only the day is given in the direct view. It turns out that in that view more granular time is available as follows; when you hover over that date a tooltip appears that gives the time down to the second. (This was pointed out by contributor 'Amit', in a comment to the answer by contributor 'rob'.)


As I accessed the 'time' view on the 25th of May the timeline was overcrowded with the recent serial voting, such that older entries (which display with date/hour/minute in direct view) were pushed out of view.

(Access to older reputation changes is provided in the form of folded entries. If I would have unfolded one of them I would have seen the date/hour/minute time stamps there.)


So:
As I didn't know about the after-two-days change, and didn't know about the tool-tip-on-hover: it looked as if stackexchange never displays hour and minute information, and that is why I posted this question here in physics meta.


The past couple of hours some upvotes have trickled in, bringing the difference into direct view.

The less-than-24-hours-prior reputation changes are given in the form '$x$ hours' ago.

For the time frame between 24 and 48 hours prior that will change to the date (with tooltip-on-hover).

After that the view will change to the date/hour/minute form.

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