Do communities on this instance have a worse down vote ratio?
Do communities on this instance have a worse down vote ratio?
Preface: Love this instance, happy to be here and this isnt a complaint just an observation.
OK so I mod a few communities across several instances, big and small. 3 on this very instance, I have noticed a pattern that posts on this instance tend to get a consistent early downvote count.
This might be my bad observations or the type of posts I see so I'd love to hear if anyone else has noticed the same.
Also got to say, this literally does not matter at all, this is just a random observation
There are definitely instances with early downvotes, yours being one of them.
And even though "it doesn't matter", it's still mildly-infuriating to see obviously innocuous/irreverent posts/comments being dogpiled, nevermind the innocent/informative ones seemingly because "I disagree!".
Somebody wrote some down vote bots earlier, just to downvote everything... I think a couple of them got banned, but maybe they put them back up....
I believe a lot of the down vote behavior is the classic " I disagree ". Though I wish people used downvotes more sparingly, and to indicate they think somebody is not contributing at all to the conversation.
I do think the down votes have a chilling effect on some people, especially people who like to lurk, they see a bunch of downloads on a conversation they're unlikely to say anything.
I haven't noticed it to be honest, but there's known bad actors, who for example downvote everything about piracy or GenAI. It's possible to determine accounts who go around and downvote everything via the DB, but I'm too lazy to do that rn :D
That also feels unnecessary unless its bots which is unlikely. Plus whyvon earth would anyone downvote piracy or genAI content on an instance about piracy and genAI
People be salty