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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 21 hours ago

To those who downvote your own comments… Why?

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To those who downvote your own comments… Why?

Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world to

Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 21 hours ago

I’ve occasionally noticed ordinary comments with zero upvotes to them. Yet, our own comments are upvoted automatically whenever we make them. So for comments to have zero upvotes, either something I don’t know about is happening, or there are people who downvote their own contributions.

I can’t help but wonder, why? It seems like extra effort without a clear reason.

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If one person down votes, will a comment not have zero points?
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  Some instances (kbin.earth in my case, which runs on mbin) show upvotes and downvotes separately. Your comment looks like this to me
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    My question answered 🙂

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