Yep, you can even see how the site tracks where the votes are coming from if you look carefully at the URL. If a post gets voted on by too many people clicking the same link, the post will be flagged and a moderator will check it out. Google can be used to find where a specific link is posted across the web which probably led the moderator to this forum. That would have confirmed that there was in fact vote manipulation going on and the thread got removed.
There are a number of reasons why the rule exists but I wont get into that.
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