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Strangely high number of upvotes to a self-answered question in a short period of time:

Preprocessor directive to test if this is C or C++

What's going on here?

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closed as too localized by Wesley Murch, jonsca, Yannis, kiamlaluno, John Sep 23 '12 at 2:07


Looks legit to me. If there was sockpuppeting going on, the question would likely have more than 1 upvote. –  Mysticial Sep 23 '12 at 0:06
@Mystical unless that's how he wants you to think. –  Aaron Bertrand Sep 23 '12 at 0:29
@Flavious - This is just a bikeshed question. The answer is upvoted by a lot of people thinking "I knew that, good answer". Now closed as a duplicate by those who also knew it had been asked before. –  Bo Persson Sep 23 '12 at 9:09

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up vote 12 down vote accepted

Far as I can tell... someone posted a good question/answer pair. That's all. I'm not turning up any malicious activity on this one.

A single vote on a question and 6 upvotes/1 downvote (at the time of this writing; probably more now that the question has been linked on meta :)) on a good answer within 40 minutes of posting isn't that unusual, or at least one would hope it wouldn't be on a site as popular as Stack Overflow.

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