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.

  • missingno@fedia.io
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    24 days ago

    As others have mentioned, mbin doesn’t auto-upvote. I didn’t even know that Lemmy does apparently. Seems like something that really ought to be standardized across platforms, because now it feels like mbin is at a ‘disadvantage’.

    IMO, ideally you just shouldn’t be able to vote on your own posts/comments at all.

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    24 days ago

    Will test and edit. Ill leave my automatic upvote on, so first person to read this please downvote this comment

    Edit: no no guys, stop upvoting 🤣

    Edit 2: sorry OP, guess i cant test out my theory, which was that if you leave your upvote, but get downvoted once, it shows up as 0

  • slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    My suspicions are that the post with no votes are not from other Lemmy instances, but rather from other federated platforms.