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**Meme:** Meta effect.

**Originator:** [Mat][1] (?)

**Mentioned:** [MSO comments][2], Sep 8 2011

**Background:** Increase of voting activities observed in main site posts that have been exposed at meta. Most ironic when someone complaining to Meta about "unfair downvotes" on another site gets more downvotes. Also seen: closing, re-opening, deleting etc. Often the opposite of the desired result for the user who came to Meta about the specific question.

**Cultural height:** Low ([seen infrequently in MSO comments][3]).

 [1]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/158667/mat
 [2]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/105579/is-the-populist-badge-motivating-the-wrong-behavior#comment270808_105579 "I believe yours got +6 at this time compared to when you posted this question, and the accepted got +3 today. So, the meta effect is currently... neutral. :)"
 [3]: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22meta+effect%22+site:meta.stackoverflow.com "google search results"