 The accounts were used to upvote his own submissions and downvote submissions made by other users that were posted around the same time and were potentially attracting attention away from his own.He also used them during discussions in which he upvoted his own comments and downvoted comments from users that he was arguing with.Reddit community manager Alex Angel (cupcake1713) described Unidan's actions as "pretty blatant vote manipulation, which is against our site rules," and "The Daily Dot" wrote that "Unidan's fall adds him to a list of power users who have abused their influence of Reddit's system for their own benefit."